Obituary

  Funeral services for Glen Stancliff, 78, prominent former Mercer County educator, were held Monday in Mansfield, Mo., where he and his wife had lived for the past few months.
  Services were held at 10 a.m. in the Full Gospel Church, Mansfield, with burial in Mansfield Cemetery, under direction of the Bergman-Miller Funeral Home.
  Memorials may be made to the College Avenue Presbyterian Church, Aledo.
  Mr. Stancliff died at 7:09 p.m. Thursday, April 24, in St. John's Hospital, Springfield, Mo., where he had been a patient for several weeks.
  He was born Feb. 28, 1902, in Viola, a son of William E. and Maggie Mae Gillen Stancliff. He was educated in rural schools in the area and graduated from Aledo High School, Monmouth College and the University of Iowa, where he received his Master's Degree.
  In June of 1935 he was married to Grace Decker in Aledo. She died in 1960. In 1961 he was married to Thelma Kottman and the couple lived in Aledo until November of 1979 when they moved to Missouri.
  Mr. Stancliff taught in a one-room school at Shale City the year of 1922-23 and served as teacher coach at Matherville Grade School from 1924-26. He taught science at Clinton, Ill., High School from 1928-1931. During the next 10 years he taught science at Aledo High School and served as Aledo High principal and science teacher from 1941-1948.
  From 1948 through 1952, he served as superintendent of La Harpe Public Schools at La Harpe, Ill., and returned to Mercer County to serve as Assistant Mercer County Superintendent of Schools from 1952 until his retirement in August of 1979. He served in the latter capacity under E.A. Johnson and during the final 16 years, under C.H. Thoman.
  Mr. Stancliff was a member of Phi Delta Kappa, honorary educational fraternity; the Illinois Education Association and National Education Association; the Illinois Association of School Administrators; National Association of School Administrators; the Mercer County Historical Society, the Current History Forum, Mercer County Mental Health Committee, Aledo Kiwanis Club, Mercer County Schoolmasters.
  He had been chosen as Outstanding Kiwanian, was a past president of the Kiwanis Club, a member of the Macomb Chapter of Phi Delta Kappa and had received the Kiwanis Secretary's Award 20 times during his 26 years as secretary for the organization. He served as secretary of the Boards of Education in Aledo from 1941-1948, secretary of the Phi Delta Kappa, the Schoolmasters and the Blackhawk Division of the Illinois Education Association from 1939-1948.
  He was a member of the Full Gospel Church, Mansfield.
  Surviving are his wife; two sons, C. William and Roger G., both of Aledo; two step-daughters, Mrs. Norma Schroll of Windfall, Ind., and Mrs. Marlene Guthrie, Oneida, Ill., 14 grandchildren and three great-grandchildren.
(Aledo Times Record, 1980)