Posted by Cathy Gowdy on Wednesday, September 20, 2006 at 08:33:08 :
Marin Independent Journal
Tuesday, August 18, 1987
Page 4
Dewey Cleland
Longtime Bay Area resident Dewey Cleland of Petaluma, died Monday, Aug. 17, 1987, at a Petaluma convalescent hospital.
He was 63.
Mr. Cleland was born in Arkansas. He was a bartender for 20 yeas.
He was a U.S. Army veteran of World War II and fought in the Battle of Normandy and the Battle of the Bulge. In 1945, he was awarded the Silver Star.
He had lived in Marin and Sonoma since 1945.
Survivors are his wife, DeLores Cleland of Rohnert Park; three sons, Wayne Cleland, Mike Cleland and Duye Cleland, all of Petaluma; two daughters, Cheryl Denton of Mendocino and Cappie Cichy of Sacramento; two stepdaughters, Sherry Ghilotti of Novato and Shirlee Costello of Windsor; two brothers, Edward Cleland of Chicago and M. C. Cleland of Dallas, Texas; and 16 grandchildren.
No funeral will be conducted.
The family prefers memorial contributions be made to Brain Impaired for Adults, Resource Center for the Redwood Empire, 306 Mendocino Ave., Santa Rosa, Calif.
Inurnment will be at San Francisco National Cemetery in San Francisco.
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