Noted composer, organist and professor of music. Only son of Rev. Joseph Waddell Clokey and his second wife, Florence Day Clokey. Graduate of Miami University where he was a music professor and later Dean of the School of Fine Arts. Also taught at Pomona College in California. Adoptive father of Art Clokey, creator of clay animation characters Gumby, Pokey and Davey and Goliath. Married Hope Taber Ford, also a musician and graduate of Oberlin College in Los Angeles in 1928. Hope died in 1937 in California.
Noted composer, organist and professor of music. Only son of Rev. Joseph Waddell Clokey and his second wife, Florence Day Clokey. Graduate of Miami University where he was a music professor and later Dean of the School of Fine Arts. Also taught at Pomona College in California. Adoptive father of Art Clokey, creator of clay animation characters Gumby, Pokey and Davey and Goliath. Married Hope Taber Ford, also a musician and graduate of Oberlin College in Los Angeles in 1928. Hope died in 1937 in California.
Gravesite Details
No individual marker--Ashes buried here in the family plot, 1960
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