Homedale
High School
Class of 1965
Parents of Alice Radcliffe
Idaho
Statesman
December 26, 1991
Cyril W. “Cy” Radcliffe
Cyril W. “Cy” Radcliffe, 76, of Boise,
died Sunday, Dec. 22, 1991, in a Boise
hospital.
Private inurnment will be held at
Cloverdale
Cemetery. Public memorial
services will be held at 10:30 a.m. Friday, Dec. 27, at the First United
Methodist
Church,
Boise.
Arrangements are under direction of Alden-Waggoner Chapel, Boise.
Mr. Radcliffe was born March 20, 1915, at
Lewis,
Kan. He began his schooling in Cresco, Iowa, and
graduated from high school in Ankeny,
Iowa, in 1933. After graduating
from Iowa State University
in 1938, he worked in the business office of the Des Moines Register-Tribune
newspaper. He married Lillian M. Feucht on Aug. 22, 1940, at Sterling, Colo.
During World War II, Mr. Radcliffe served in the U.S. Army, where he
graduated first in his class from the Pawling Cryptography School
in New York.
He was selected as one of five Americans to travel to Oxford, England,
to learn the British code and ciphers. He was the only American to graduate with
honors. Before he was discharged from the Army, he served as a counselor to
hearing impaired veterans.
After the war, Mr. Radcliffe became the co-owner of a John Deere
dealership in Illinois. In 1948, he
began the John Deere dealership in
Homedale,
Idaho, which he operated for 12
years. During that time, he was active in representing small business, including
testifying before the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives regarding
National Labor Relations Board issues. He became a Knife and Fork Club speaker,
traveling throughout the “Iron Curtain” countries and speaking throughout the
United States.
In 1959, he and his family moved to
Boise, where he was a stockbroker until retiring ten
years ago from Thompson-McKinnon as a territorial manager.
In addition to being a wonderful husband and father, Cy was a coach for
the Idaho Boy Scouts who participated in the Reader’s Digest National Speech
Contest. The boys Cy coached placed second and third in the nationals. He was an
organizer of the Crime Stoppers program. Cy was an avid golfer, winning many
local tournaments. His tips for playing golf were sought after by both beginners
and experts.
He was active in Rotary International as a Paul Harris Fellow.
Survivors include his wife, Lillian of Boise; two daughters and
sons-in-law, Jennifer and Doug Formo of Boise, and Alice and Michael Greene of
Lake Oswego, Ore.; two sons, William Radcliffe of Seattle, and John Radcliffe of
Chicago; four grandchildren, Sarah and Brian Formo, and Amy and Adam Greene; and
numerous nieces and nephews.
Memorials may be made to the Boise Rotary Foundation for the Rotary
House, P.O. Box 1636,
Boise
83701; or to a
favorite charity.
Idaho
Statesman
September 27,
2001
Lillian M. Radcliffe
Lillian M. Radcliffe passed away peacefully at her home in Lake Oswego, Ore.,
on September 23, 2001. She was 88 years old.
Born Lillian M. Feucht in
Sterling,
Colo., on April 16, 1913, she was
an only child and grew up on the family farm, where she was her father’s “right
hand man.” He taught her to ride and drive a team of horses as well as operate
the farm’s machinery.
After graduating from Sterling High School, Lillian attended
Colorado
State
University
for two years before transferring to
Iowa
State
University, where she graduated with a B.S. degree
in Dietetics in 1935. It was while attending
Iowa State that Lillian met her future
husband, Cy Radcliffe.
Lillian and Cy were married on August 22, 1940 and made their first home
in Des Moines, Iowa.
She worked as a dietitian at Mercy Hospital in Des Moines
while husband Cy served with the Army’s Eighth Air Force in England during
World War II.
In 1948, Lillian and Cy moved their family to
Homedale,
Idaho, where Cy and his partner
and brother-in-law Wilbur Mancke operated their new John Deere dealership. They
lived in Homedale for 11 years.
In 1959, the family moved to
Boise, Idaho, where Lillian, in addition to being a
housewife and mother, took up a number of other activities. She was a 4-H leader
for 15 years, having 2 clubs a year, including a boys club, and later served
many years as a judge at the State Fair. A member of the United
Methodist
Church, Lillian took an
active role in her church. She was a choir mother for many years and a leader of
her Bible Study group. She was also a member of the United Methodist Women and
Good Neighbor Program. Lillian was the first woman to have her own cooking
school on TV while on the Bonnie Wallis Show in the 1950’s. Lillian was a
charter member of the chapter BN and remained active in PEO until her move to Oregon.
Lillian also enjoyed going to new places and meeting new people. She
traveled extensively throughout the U.S.
and made several trips to Europe and the Caribbean.
A three month trip around the world in 1965 with her son, John, was the
highlight of her travel adventures.
After Cy’s death in 1991, Lillian lived on her own for several years in Boise. In 1997, she moved to Lake Oswego, Ore.,
to live with her daughter, Alice Greene. By 1998 a new addition had been built
onto the Greene’s home, a cozy new apartment for Lillian. It was here,
surrounded by loving family and friends, pets and grandkids, that Lillian spent
her final years.
If a family is blessed, there is at least one individual who serves as a
magnet, who has a gravitation pull which draws all together in love and
laughter, celebration and consolation, tradition and hope and excitement about
the future. She was that kind of person – one who spread her net wide and drew
in, not only her family, but any and all who were in need of love, shelter or
laughter. Deeply devoted to her family and friends, her church and her
community, she will be greatly missed by all who knew and loved her. Her love,
faith and sense of humor have touched and brightened so many lives along the
way.
Survivors include John and his wife Magdalena, of
Breckenridge,
Colo., and Bill of Federal Way,
Wash., and daughters Alice and her husband Michael Greene of Lake Oswego and
Sarah and Brian Formo of Hauser.
A memorial service will be held at United First Methodist Church
Cathedral of the Rockies at 10 a.m. Saturday September 29th. In
lieu of flowers, memorials can be made to Chapter BN for local projects, c/o
Kathleen Skalsky, 615 Scott Street,
Boise, Idaho 83705, First Methodist
Church or Hospice.