Anthony W. Clemente

Anthony W. Clemente Jr., age 67, passed away November 24, 2013 at Kindred Hospital in Detroit, Michigan. Tony was born at the newly built Holy Cross Hospital in Detroit, Michigan on August 10, 1946 to Anthony W. and LaVerne C. (nee Clothier) Clemente. Tony spent many of his summers as a youth on the farm with his grandmother Harriet S. Dagen Clothier in Pinora Township, Lake County, Michigan, very near where his ancestors homesteaded in the 1860's and 1870's. To honor those ancestors, he maintained Michigan agricultural license plates on his car and motor home; one with the letters SETLR and the other with HMSTD. He loved the farm and farming all of his life and worked weekends and vacations on a number of dude ranches in Michigan over the years. He attended Warren Woods schools through the elementary years and graduated from Warren Consolidated High School in 1964. He also took many extension courses in business management, business law, and finance. For many years he helped many clients file income taxes. Tony was a family genealogist devoting most of his life to the task of sorting out his family and having traced some lines to the time of Charlemagne, whose reign as King of Franks lasted from 768 to 814 A.D. A documented descendant of 11 Mayflower passengers, he spent much time studying the Mayflower signers and their descendants. A great deal of his studies were also spent on the Clother, Clothier, Blackmer and Pangburn lines; families who came some 30 years after the Plymouth founders. Over the years he belonged to many county and state genealogical societies in Michigan, New York, Connecticut, Massachusetts and Canada. Some of his materials have been deposited with the Latter Day Saints Library in Salt Lake City, Utah for others to use in their genealogical research. He spent many years helping others with their research and was an editor of the newsletter, The Clothier Chronicles and a many time contributor to the Pangburn Newsletter. His research on the Clother and Clothier family lines was renowned and many times quoted on the internet and in published works. He worked in the Graphic Arts trade for 43 years, having started as a printers apprentice; he studied under many well-known masters from the 1930's and 1940's. He attained pressman status and eventually worked through varied companies as manager, estimator, billing manager, comptroller, general manager, before suffering job loss on April 5, 2006, in a huge company cutback at which time he became virtually retired due to his age and inability to find a job. His knowledge of all facets of the printing trades kept him in contact with many who sought his knowledge over the years. He worked with, and for, and employed many people over the years and counted most all of them as his friends. He is survived by two sisters, Carolyn M. Beauvais and Rosalyn M. Evans; one niece, one nephew, four great-nieces, two great-nephews, his favorite aunt Norma (Dr. Dean) Graves, many cousins, a step daughter Lori who he was with until age 8 and loved all his life. He is preceded in death by his parents Anthony W. and LaVerne C. Clothier Clemente; his sister, LaVerne G. Clemente; his grandparents, Giacamo "James" Clemente and Muriel M. DeHate Clemente and Harlow H. Clothier and Harriet S. Dagan Clothier; and niece, Shelly R. Beauvais. Visitation will be held Tuesday, November 26, 2013 and Wednesday, November 27, 2013 from 2:00pm until 9:00pm at the A.H. Peters Funeral Home, 32000 Schoenherr Road at Masonic, Warren. Interment will be private in the family plot at Clinton Grove Cemetery on Cass Avenue in Clinton Township.

Funeral Home:

A.H. Peters Funeral Home

32000 Schoenherr Road

Warren, MI

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