Highland County OhArchives Obituaries.....Kenworthy, Clarkson Alvin "C. A." March 31, 1977
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1 April 1977 GREENFIELD DAILY TIMES of Greenfield, Ohio.

               OBITUARY FACTS EXTRACT.
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	NAME: Clarkson Alvin Kenworthy.
	AGE: 72.
	CITY/COUNTY/STATE OF RESIDENCE:  Greenfield, Highland County, Ohio. 
	DEATH/PLACE:  31 March 1977 at his residence.
	BIRTH/PLACE: 14 Feb. 1905 in Russellville, Indiana. 
	FATHER:  Vernon W. Kenworthy.
	MOTHER:  Ethel Kenworthy.
	SPOUSE(S):  Louise Hatcher (married 1 June 1929).
	SISTER(S):  Miss Alice Kenworthy.
	BROTHERS:  One brother (deceased).
	FUNERAL HOME: Murray Funeral Home in Greenfield, Ohio. 
	BURIAL LOCATION:  Greenfield Cemetery in Greenfield, Ohio.
	OTHER INFORMATION: Member of Methodist Church.  Member Greenfield 
Masonic Lodge 318, Shrine, York Rite.   
	OCCUPATION: Past owner and operator of Kenworthy Seed Co. in 
Greenfield, Ohio.  
	  
	EXTRACT SOURCE: 1 April 1977 GREENFIELD DAILY TIMES of Greenfield, 
Ohio.


Additional Comments:
	OTHER INFORMATION NOT IN OBITUARY:  Other multiple-column articles 
about Mr. Kenworthy appear in the 3 Dec. 1936 and 2 May 1977 GREENFIELD DAILY 
TIMES.  Photographs of Mr. Kenworthy are part of the articles.  The articles 
talk in great detail about how he achieved national and international acclaim 
for his production and development of superior hybrid corns, and of his 
contributions to agricultural science and agribusiness. His associates 
included the imminent geneticists Dr. George Harrison Shull and Dr. Frederick 
D. Richey. Mr. Kenworthy sold his business to Victor Lucas in the 1960s when 
his health began to fail. 
	Mr. Kenworthy’s brother, Glenn Kenworthy, was lost in the sinking of 
the U.S. navy cruiser USS Indianapolis during World War II.  
	Mr. Kenworthy graduated from New London, Ind. high School in 1923. He 
graduated from Perdue University in 1927.  He took graduate studies at Perdue 
and Ohio State University. He taught at Jeffersonville and Oak Hill schools 
before becoming vocational agriculture instructor at Edward McClain High 
School in Greenfield, Ohio. He was the uncle of Miss Adelaide Shull, head of 
the languages department at McClain High School for many years.  He also 
served two four-year terms on the Board of Education. He was a member of the 
official board of the First United Methodist Church for many years.  He was 
instrumental in reviving the grange in this community.  He was a member of the 
Greenfield Rotary Club and the Greenfield Elks Lodge 717.  He was a member of 
the last Greenfield Board of Cemetery Trustees to function under the village 
form of municipal government.  Mr. Kenworthy was also a Mason and was 
affiliated with the F & M Lodge, the RAM chapter, the Knights Templar, York 
Rite, and the Shrine.  
 	According to the articles, “Mr. Kenworthy was accorded and took great 
pride in receiving and reciprocating the respect and friendship of his home 
community as well as professional and business associates from near and far.  
Quiet spoken, he was a scholarly gentleman of firm convictions and positive 
expression.  A dedicated teacher, he labored with devotion in his life’s work 
of improving one of nature’s bounties for the benefit of mankind through the 
science of hybrid corn seed development.”
	Mr. Kenworthy and his partners operated a farm in the early 1960s that 
was located where the beach at Deer Creek Lake State Park in Ohio is now 
located.  My father worked for him as resident farmhand, and our family lived 
in the white, two-story house that was on the farm. When I graduated from the 
8th grade at nearby Rainsboro Elementary School, Mr. Kenworthy gave me new 
copy of Webster’s Dictionary as a graduation present.




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