Clarence Hightshoe

CLARENCE CECIL HIGHTSHOE

Iowa City

Clarence Cecil Hightshoe, 95, longtime resident of Iowa City, died Saturday, Jan. 9, 2016, at Briarwood Care Center in Iowa City. Funeral services will be held Saturday, Jan. 16, at Zion Lutheran Church, 310 N. Johnson, Iowa City. Visitation will be from 9 until 11 a.m. The funeral service will begin at 11 a.m. A luncheon will follow the service. Burial will be at Memory Gardens Cemetery, Iowa City, with full military honors.

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Clarence Cecil Hightshoe, son of Alvin and Elsa (Maske) Hightshoe, was born Dec. 26, 1920, in rural Keokuk County, Iowa, east of Keota. He married his high school sweetheart, Alda Zahner, on Nov. 26, 1941, just days before Pearl Harbor. Clarence enlisted in the Army Air Corps in 1942 and served in Europe during World War II with the 384th Heavy Bombardment Group of the 8th United States Air Force based at Grafton-Underwood, England. He was awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross (1945) and retired from the Air Force Reserve in 1972 as lieutenant colonel.

Clarence established Hightshoe Construction Company, building many homes in the Iowa City area. In 2014, he flew on the Eastern Iowa Honor Flight to tour the Washington, D.C., war memorials. He will be remembered for his storytelling, sense of humor and quick wit.

Clarence is survived by his son, Gary and his wife, Joan (Ames); and daughter, Susan and her companion, Dwayne Farmer (Marion); grandchildren, Kate Hightshoe, Jessica Rosenhamer (Brad), Tobin Hightshoe, Abigail Jackson (Jake), Quentin Stark (Kelly), Thomas Stark and Christopher Stark; and five great-grandchildren. Four sisters, Helen Marine, Mary Seydel, Martha Schemmel and Lorraine Turnipseed, also survive him.

He was preceded in death by his parents; wife, Alda; and brother, Wayne Hightshoe.