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WALTER JAMES CLENDENNING
[The Welland Tribune and Telegraph, 26 January 1926]
The death of Walter J. Clendenning last week takes from Welland one of the “old landmarks” of the city, for he had been a resident here for six and sixty of the well-nigh ninety decades allotted to him on earth. Born at Acton, February 2 1837, Mr. Clendenning came to Welland in 1860, from which time the village, town and now city became his permanent home.
In 1863 he married Ezelpha Rosette of Lynne to survive him, with the memory of more than sixty years of wedded life together. There are eleven children living, born of the union, Joseph and Gordon Clendenning of this city and Robert of Niagara Falls, Mrs. Hewitt Smith and Miss Agnes Clendenning of Buffalo, Mrs. Fred Lovell and Mrs. George Reynolds, also of Niagara Falls, and Mrs. Wm. Duk of Niagara Falls, N.Y., Mrs. Earl Gibson, LaSalle N.Y. and Misses Addie and Carrie Clendenning of Welland.
Interment was made at Doan’s Ridge cemetery Thursday afternoon, following services at the family home here, conducted by Rev. W.J. Mumford of the Welland United Church, of which the deceased was a member.
Mr. Clendenning had not only a long life here, but an honorable one that won him the esteem of his fellows. He was a staunch Liberal in politics and was looked upon as one of the Old Guard by such partisans.
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