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300 Attend Funeral for Carl Clingerman Saturday |
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from Wayne County Star November 10, 1971 |
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NORTH ROSE -Nearly 200 officers from various police agencies from a seven-county area were among 300 persons who attended the funeral last Saturday of Carl Clingerman, a special investigator for the Wayne County Sheriffs Department. Two lines of the law officers stood at attention in front of the Farnsworth Funeral Home in North Rose while a service was conducted by Rev. Robert Egan of St. John the Evangelist Church, Clyde. Following the service, a long procession of police cars led those of family and friends to the Rose Cemetery for the burial.
A double row of officers faced each other during the burial service led by Father Egan after the flag draped casket had been carried between. them-to the grave. Sheriff James Hurley, of the Wayne County Sheriff's Department presented the flag to Mrs. Veronica Clingerman, widow of the officer, after it was removed by the flag detail. Forming the only one more reminder after flag detail were Sgt. Ed Williams. Sgt. Don Pierson and Deputies Dave Dalton, Harry Carr, Donald VanWas, Donald Allen and Lt. Wm. Benedict, all-of the Wayne County Sheriffs -Department. Clingerman, 34, of Salter Road, Rose, was killed early last Wednesday morning, Nov. 2, 1971 while on his way home after a burglary investigation and arrest in Clyde.
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He had dropped Chief Deputy Richard Kise off at his home in Lock Berlin following the arrest and was on his way home to North Rose when his 1970 sedan, owned by the Sheriff's Department, collided with a 1971 sports car driven by Steven Zulauf, 19, son of Paul Zulauf of Sodus St., Clyde. The crash occurred less than a quarter of a mile north of Clyde on Route 414. Sheriff James Hurley said, after an investigation at the accident scene, that tire marks and all evidence indicated that Clingerman was definitely in the right lane and. the Zulauf car was on the wrong side of the road when the crash occurred. It was a head on collision and Clingerman's vehicle bounced off to the left shoulder, where it burned. Zulauf, who was trapped in his car for 10 to 15 minutes, suffered a fractured skull, multiple fractures of the legs, a collapsed lung and other injuries. Listed in serious condition in Lyons Community Hospital last week, he was reported as improving yesterday. The Sheriff's Department reported that a bag containing what appeared to be marijuana was found in the glove compartment of Zulaf's car. It was later confirmed as marijuana. Surviving along with his his wife are two children, Mark, 12 and Julie, 3, at home, two brothers, Wayne and Milford, both of Lyons; a sister, Alta Clatterbough of Stewarts Draft, Va. and his mother, Mrs. Clara Clingerman of North Rose. Clingerman joined the department as a sheriff's department March 1, 1968 and was promoted to sergeant in 1969. In May of this year, he was appointed special narcotics investigator. He had previousIy been employed at the Seneca Army Depot in Romulus. A Carl L, Clingerman Memorial Fund his been established by the Wayne County Sheriffs Department, said Sheriff James Hurley. He said the fund will be used for the children's education or "as the wife sees fit." Editors Note: Carl "Bickett" Clingerman's name is engraved in Granite at the Law Enforcement Officers Memorial in Albany near the Empire State Plaza |
