Deewitt Clouse

1911-1974

Deewitt Clouse was born on 25 Apr 1911 in Illinois. His father was William Theodore Clouse 1880-1979. I have not yet discovered who his mother was but know that she died before 1920. William Clouse had two children I can name, Paul E. Clouse 1914-2002 and Deewitt Clouse 1911-1974.  After the death of his mother and before 1920 Paul had been sent to the Nachusa Lutheran Orphanage in Lee County, Illinois. On the 1920 census, Deewitt was living with his grandparents Henry and Mary Gray in McNairy County, Tennessee. Deewitt married Vionia Mary Rosalee Plunk 1915-2002 in 1936. She was the daughter of Erwin Plunk and Jessie Whitten. They made their home in Tennessee and lived there the remainder of their lives. After the death of Deewitt Vionia later married Jeff Milligan.

OBITUARY- Appeared in the Independent Appeal Newspaper, Wed., Nov. 11, 2002.

 VIONIA MARY ROSALEE PLUNK CLOUSE MILLIGAN of Kenton, 87, died Dec. 4, 2002 at Union City Manor in Obion County. Mrs. Milligan was a homemaker and a member of the Goodhope Missionary Baptist Church near Adamsville. She was born and reared in McNairy County, the daughter of the late Ervin Austin and Jessie Whitten Plunk. She attended Schools in McNairy County. She attended schools in McNairy County. She was married to Dee Witt Clouse in 1936 and they made their home in McNairy, Madison and Obion counties, where they did dairy work. Mr. Clouse died in 1974. She was later married to Jeff Milligan and they made their home in Mason Hall. Mr. Milligan died in 1999. She continued to live in Mason Hall until she went to Union City Manor a year ago. She is survived by a son, Bill Clouse and wife Shirley of Union City; two stepsons, Ronnie Milligan of Union City and J. D. Milligan of Mason Hall; two stepdaughters, Donna Berg of Murfreesboro and Joyce Tatum of Cookeville; two brothers, Marvin Plunk of Leapwood and Jerry Plunk of Adamsville; and one sister, Johnnie Childers of Peoria, IL. She had sixteen grandchildren, and twenty-six gr-grandchildren.

Services were held at 2 p.m. on Sat., Dec. 7th at Casey Funeral Home in Henderson, with the Reverend Ronnie Geary officiating. Burial followed at New Church Cemetery in Finger. Photo - Deewitt Clouse & Vionia Plunk.