Clarice Warrior

Clarice Vera (Cowles) Warrior, daughter of Minnie Mae (Hall) and Delbert Philander Cowles was born on a farm in Decatur County, Iowa, on March 19, 1907. Clarice entered eternal rest on September 18, 2005, at the Afton Care Center in Afton, Iowa, at the age of ninety eight years, six months, and two days.
Clarice attended a one-room school a mile from her home until she finished the eighth grade. Clarice graduated from Davis City High School with the class of 1923. She also graduated from Capitol City Commercial College, in Des Moines, Iowa.
On August 1, 1927, Clarice married Fred Henry Warrior at the Little Brown Church in Nashua, Iowa. They lived in Creston until 1931. In 1931, they moved to Afton. In the 1940s she was President of the P.T.A. for three years and during that time helped Superintendent Anderson launch the school hot lunch program. In 1952, Clarice started working for the Afton Telephone Exchange as a switchboard operator and worked there until January, 1959, when the system switched to dial phones. On January 1, 1959, her husband died suddenly. Shortly afterward she started working at V.A. Hospital in Des Moines as a switchboard operator and receptionist. She later worked as a transcriber in the x-ray department. Clarice retired in 1973 and returned to Afton where she had maintained her home. She became active in the Garden Club, Womens Club and Dodge Center Church. In September, 1995, Clarice sold her home of 54 years and moved to Regency Park in Creston. She was a member of the Creston United Methodist Church.
Left to mourn Clarices passing are her three daughters: Marilyn (husband Bill) Kelley, Creston; Carol Amos, Antioch, CA; Janice (husband Roland “Top”) Peterson, Afton; one son: Kenneth (wife Mary Jane) Warrior, Denver, CO; sixteen grandchildren; thirty four great-grandchildren; and six great-great-grandchildren.
Preceding Clarice in death were her parents; husband, Fred, on January 1, 1959; one brother; one sister; and a son-in-law.