Clare C. Saunders of Albion, Wisconsin, died May 3, 1986, at home at the age of 86. She was born March 27, 1900, in Albion, the daughter of Harlan and Nellie Casler Saunders.
Miss Saunders was a 1922 graduate of the University of Wisconsin School of Journalism. A former member of the Mystery Writers Club of New York, she had several books published - mysteries, interior decorating, and modeling. For many years, she owned and operated an interior decorating business in New York City. She designed one of the waiting rooms for the NBC Studio in New York.
Miss Saunders always had a great interest in the SDB Church of Albion. Her great-grandfather, Jessie Saunders, was a founding father of the church in 1843.
Survivors include a sister, Kathleen Genisot of Edgerton, Wisconsin; and two nieces, Jane Algrim of Milton, Wisconsin, and Joan Roush of Rockford, Illinois. She was preceded in death by one brother and three sisters. Funeral services were conducted at the Bruni-Nygaard-Ward Funeral Home in Edgerton on May 6, 1986, by Pastor Robert Harris. Interment followed in the Evergreen Cemetery in Albion.
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