A long-time Auroran, former South Elgin pastor and missionary to Africa has died.
Reverend Clyde Galow passed away November 13. He was 93.
A Celebration of Life service will be held at 11 a.m. Saturday, Dec. 4, at the former Fourth Street United Methodist (UMC) Church, 551 S. 4th Street in Aurora.
Rev. Galow was a retired elder in the United Methodist Church Northern Illinois Conference. After serving for 20 years as a Methodist missionary in Sierra Leone, West Africa, he returned as pastor in South Elgin’s Community UMC, and in UMC churches in Ashton, Yorkville, and Millbrook.
In retirement, he taught adult Sunday School classes at Forth Street UMC and assisted pastors at the Church. He attended Flowing Forth UMC in Aurora after 4th St. UMC merged with Flowing Grace UMC of Batavia in 2018.
—Al Benson