Senator Clarence S. Carney View All Years

CLARENCE S. CARNEY

Clarence S. Carney was born on June 21, 1925, in Ossining, New York, to Clarence and Josephine Carney. He passed away on March 27, 2012, at the age of 86. He is survived by his three children; Michael and his wife, Marsha; Patsy; and Kathy; two sisters Janet and Barbara; five grandchildren; and five great-grandchildren.

Carney lived at the Graham School Orphanage in Yonkers, New York, and graduated from Hastings High School in Hastings, New York. He served in the U.S. Navy in the South Pacific from 1943–1946. After the war, he earned a Bachelor of Arts degree from Iowa State University, where he played football. He went on to receive a master’s degree in counseling from the University of Northern Iowa in 1960.

He married Jacquelyn “Jacque” Moore on June 17, 1950, in Charles City, Iowa. They lived in Ackley, Iowa, where he was a high school football coach from 1951–1959. He studied and coached at the University of Iowa from 1959–1960 before finally settling in Sioux City, where he was the dean of boys, a teacher, and a football coach at Central High School in Sioux City from 1960–1966. He worked for Iowa Public Service/Midwest Energy from 1967–1990 and Morningside College from 1990–1995.

Carney was active in many community projects and organizations. He was Commodore and Port Admiral of the Port of Sioux City River-Cade. He was a past master of the Tyrian Masonic Lodge 508 A.F. and A.M., Potentate of the Abu Bekr Shrine Temple in 1995, and announcer for the White House Mounted Patrol and the Scottish Rite Knight Commander Court of Honor. He was Master of Ceremonies for the All-American Concert Band. He served as president of the Sioux City School Board, the Sioux City Convention and Tourism Board, the Sertoma Club, the Waco Board, and was a member of the United Way.

He received many awards including the Presidential Volunteer Award, the Lions Club Outstanding Citizen Award of the Year in 1998, the Rotary Club Service Award in 2001, Iowa State University Siouxland Service Key Award, Sertoman of the Year in 1983 and 1991, and the NAIA Meritorious Service Award in 1996.

He was a member of St. Thomas Episcopal Church, where he was a senior warden and lay leader.

Carney was a Woodbury County Republican. He served in the Iowa Senate from 1979–1983, during the 68th and 69th General Assemblies.

NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED BY THE SENATE OF THE EIGHTY-FIFTH GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF IOWA: That in the passing of the Honorable Clarence S. Carney, the State has lost an honored citizen and faithful and useful public servant, and that the Senate by this resolution expresses its appreciation of his service to the State and tenders its sympathy and kindest regards to the members of his family.

BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED: That a copy of this resolution be spread upon the Journal of the Senate and that the Secretary of the Senate be instructed to forward an enrolled copy to the family of the deceased.

BILL ANDERSON

DARYL BEALL

RICK BERTRAND

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