Clayton Linn of Kimball died Thursday, Oct. 15, 2009, at the VA Medical Center in St. Cloud. He was 94.
Mass of Christian Burial will be held at 10:30 a.m. Monday, Oct. 19, at St. Anne’s Catholic Church in Kimball with Fr. Tom Olson officiating. Friends may call from 4-8 p.m. Sunday at the Dingmann Funeral Care Chapel in Kimball, and Monday one hour prior to the services at the church. A prayer service will be at 5 p.m. Sunday at the funeral home. Burial with full military honors will follow at St. Anne’s Catholic Cemetery.
Clayton Chester Linn was born March 13, 1915, in Maine Prairie Township to Richard and Clara Linn. He graduated from Kimball High School in 1934, and then received teacher’s training in Annandale. In 1941 he entered the U.S. Navy where he became a member of the Seventh Fleet Air Wing. Clayton married Mabel G. Lacina Dec. 10, 1941, in Norfolk, Va. Following World War II, he received his teaching certificate from St. Cloud State University and for four years taught at the Meyer School in St. Augusta.
He retired from the U.S Postal Service in 1976 after serving in Kimball as postmaster for 32 years. Clayton was past commander and member of the Kimball American Legion Post 261, and served for 27 years as coach of the Junior Legion Baseball Team. He was a member of Forty and Eight, Minnesota Poultry Association, American Poultry Association, and the Church of St. Anne where he was an usher, special needs religious education teacher, and a Mass server for funerals.
He was preceded in death by his sister Mabel Unterburger and brother Lloyd Linn.
Clayton is survived by his wife of 67 years Mabel of Kimball; children Joyce (and Jim) Johnson of The Villages, Fla., Garry (and Mary) Linn of Kimball, Sharon (and John) Barberg of Cokato, Mike Linn (and Debra Botzek-Linn) of Kimball, Anne (and Charles) Wodetzki of Valparaiso, Ind.; sister-in-law Marjorie Linn of Watkins; grandchildren Dr. JeRay Johnson, Jeremy Johnson, Job Barberg, Richard Linn, Jakub Barberg, Jordan Wodetzki, C.J. Wodetzki, Jennifer Duerksen, Michele Groinus, Jessica Carlson, Abigail Wodetzki, 12 great-grandchildren, also many nieces, nephews and cousins.
St. Anne’s Choir, with Frosty Schiefelbein as organist, will provide the music for the service. Arrangements were by Dingmann Funeral Care of Kimball. Memorials are preferred.
