CLEMENT, Kearby Leon

The Wickenburg Sun, Wickenburg, AZ Wednesday, July 7, 2010 Kearby Leon Clement of Morristown, Ariz., passed away at 7:10 a.m. on June 29 in Hospice of Arizona at the Freedom Plaza facility in Sun City, Ariz. He was born in Lincoln, Neb., on July 15, 1938. He moved to Arizona from California in 1970 with his wife and five of his nieces and nephews. Kearby is survived by his younger sister Chery Cirigliano and her two sons Wayne and Mark Cirigliano; also by his nieces and nephew Rhonda Mehrens, Elizabeth Bundesen, Mary Larson, Debbie Callahan, Diane Carstensen and Bill Hassler; by his half-siblings Mary Medellin, Jimmy Clement, Steve Clement, Jeannie Roberts, and Jerry Clement. He was known to many as Uncle Kearby, Grandpa Kearby, Unca Wanca, and to some as Dad. He was a very unselfish man when it came to a decision to get married and help raise five of us six Hassler children. He also helped raise his grandchildren Bryan, Angela, and Tabatha Bundesen when their dad passed away. He also had his special little granddaughter Chrystal Bundesen (Tabby’s daughter). He is survived by 13 grandchildren and 11 great-grandchildren. We all have some good stories to talk about, and we love him, and we are glad he is in a better place with his mom, where he is not suffering any longer. He is a special uncle to all of us Hasslers and a special grandpa to all our kids. He worked at Bethlehem Steel in South Gate, Calif., and he also worked for the state as a surveyor. Then he moved to Arizona and worked as a surveyor. He also was in the Navy and got to tour Hong Kong, and he also received his first and only tattoo - an anchor. He was a poem writer and even had one of this poems published in a book called, “The Garden of Life - National Library of Poetry.” His poem was called “Sunset.”