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CORWIN S CLATT 05 Feb 192402 Jun 1997 (V)61611 (East Peoria, Tazewell, IL) (none specified) 347-18-7501 Illinois. - ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 Corwin S "Cornie" Clatt, in Find A Grave.
- ↑ Corwin Clatt
EAST PEORIA - Corwin S. Clatt, 73, of East Peoria died at 10:40 a.m. Monday. June 2, l997, at Methodist Medical Center in Peoria. Funeral services will be at 11 a.m. Thursday at Faith Lutheran Church in Washington. The Rev. Mark Boster will officiate. Burial will be in Fondulac Cemetery in East Peoria. Friends may call from 5 to 8 p.m. Wednesday at Wright & Salmon Mortuary in Peoria. Memorial contributions may be to Faith Lutheran Church, of which he was a member. He was born Feb. 5, 1924, in West Des Moines, Iowa, to Cecil and Fern Bond Clatt. He Married Dorothy Dixon, Sept. 1, 1944 in Peoria. Surviving are his wife: one daughter and a son. Two brothers preceded him in death. Mr. Clatt was a teacher and a football and track coach at East Peoria Community High School, District 309, for 28 years, retiring in 1984. He was a World War II army medical corps veteran. A 1948 graduate of Notre Dame University, he received his master's degree from Bradley University. A fullback he played football for the university of Notre Dame in 1942 and in 1946-47. He went on to play for the Chicago Cardinals in the National Football League. He was inducted into the Greater Peoria Sports Hall of Fame in 1986, and was named East Peoria Citizen of the Year in 1996. The football facility at the new EastSide Center sports complex will be named in his honor.
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