Transcriber: Kay Ward
Surnames: WOLF, MELDE, NEAL, McKELROY, LUEDKE
WOLF, Clarence Emil
Clarence Emil Wolf, b January 13, 1927 at The Grove, Coryell County, Texas-was
a son of Gustav Emil Wolf, b July 31, 1887 at Green's Creek, Lee County, Texas,
and his wife, Martha Melvin(Melde) Wolf, b July 7, 1893 at Fidor, Lee County,
Texas. The Grove was a German community where Clarence was christened on
January 16, 1927 at the St. Paul Lutheran Church, and confirmed on March 17,
1940. Clarence attended the St. Paul Parochial School until 1942, and graduated
from Temple High School in 1944.
Clarence was engaged in his father's cotton ginning business at The Grove until
1949, when the family moved to Rosebud, Falls County, Texas and his father
bought the Ligon-Sapp Gin. The gin burned in 1962, and they continued in the
ginning business at Burlington until 1974. Clarence has been in the seed
conditioning and seed sales business, and is a certified seed producer, since 1974.
Clarence Emil Wolf is involved in public and civic affairs, has belonged to the
Volunteer Fire Department in Rosebud for twenty-five years, is a member of the
Lions Club, Secretary of the Rosebud Chamber of Commerce(1952-1953), Mayor
of Rosebud (1971-1975), and again Mayor in 1984-1985. He is a Director of the
First Consolidated Bank of Rosebud (originally the First National Bank) since 1961,
has served as a Director of the Texas Cotton Ginners Association, and of the
National Cotton Ginners Association, and as Secretary-Treasurer of the Central
Texas Cotton Ginners Association.
On July 5, 1953, Clarence Emil Wolf married Norma Blanche Neal, b March 22,
1934 in Falls county, Texas-a daughter of James Russell and Beatrice (McKelroy)
Neal of Lott, Texas.
Blanche was a graduate of Lott High School, and attended Jenkins-Barnes
Laboratory and X-Ray Technician School in Waco, Texas. In 1952, she was
employed by Rosebud Hospital and Clinic as X-Ray and Surgical Technician, and
filled that position until 1954. In 1979, Blanche received an Associate Degree in
Nursing from McLennan Community College.
Clarence and Blanche Wolf are the parents of two children:
Beverly Carole Wolf, b August 3, 1955 at Rosebud, who married on January 7,
1978 to Larry Dan Luedke of Marlin, Texas.
Clarence Emil Wolf, Jr., b December 4, 1958 at Rosebud, who is a graduate of
Rosebud/Lott High School, is a member of the First Lutheran Church of Rosebud,
and is in business with his father in seed conditioning and seed sales. He enjoys
baseball and all sports, and is not married.
Copyright Permission granted to Theresa Carhart for printing these bio of these
Falls County Families to this Web page
"Families of Falls County", Compiled and Edited by the Falls County Historical
Commission,
page 495-496, column 2 and column 1
Member of Falls County Historical Commission
This book can still be obtained from the Falls County Historical Commission.
Contact Theresa Carhart for details.
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