Fred Tunnicliff

 

Fred Eugene Tunnicliff was born t0 Mary Ella (Minnick) and Joseph Shepard Tunnicliff on 30 January 1887, Shenandoah, Iowa. 

 

Fred attended Grant Township Elementary School in rural Page County, Iowa.  He was eduated at the University of Iowa and later served as a banker in Elliot, Iowa for two years.  He later was an executive at the Henry Field Seed Company 1913-1942 and then at Lake's Nursery until 1949.

 

Fred married Ruth Hazel Tunnicliff, a daughter of Elizur Porter and Sarah Ellen (McEnheimer) Hunter.  They became parents of two girls:  Ariel Esther in 1914 and Alice Jean in 1921.

Fred died in 1949 in Shenandoah and is buried in the cemetery there.