Clarence Frevert was born at Gardnerville, Douglas County, Nevada, September 24th, 1889. He was reared there in the valley of the Carson, attending the public schools in his boyhood and assuming the responsibilities of manhood as he grew older. His first position after leaving school was in the office of the Record-Courier at Gardnerville. His employers in that concern speak of his services with them in these words: “When about fifteen years of age he served as an apprentice in this office, and our memories of this boy are of such a nature that his untimely death brings us deep sadness. For a boy in the twenties he was a deep thinker and had the courage of his beliefs. He was outspoken, a trait that won him great friendship. He was a friend of everyone, and held no ill will against a living thing. . . . He was proud of the fact that he had been called to defend the honor of his Country and was ready to undertake any hardship that the government might ask.”

After a year in the office, Clarence decided that the indoor work was too confining. He therefore left the Record-Courier and was given a position as electrician for the Douglas Milling and Power Company at Minden. He was holding this place when the call came to join the colors, and on the 22nd of July, 1918, he entrained for Fort Riley, Kansas. Arriving at the post, he was assigned to Ambulance Company 240, 10th Sanitary Train. He served with them during the influenza epidemic, working among the sick, until he himself contracted the disease and was sent to the hospital. Pneumonia developed soon after, and on the 17th of October, 1918, the soldier passed away, a week after the day he was taken sick.

He was buried on the 22d of the month in the Gardnerville Cemetery with beautiful military honors. Boys who had brothers serving in the Army attended the casket and fired a last salute over his grave. Maurice J. Sullivan, the Lieutenant Governor, represented the State of Nevada at this funeral of the first boy from the County of Douglas to give his life for the flag. Clarence was the son of Mr. and Mrs. Henry Frevert of Gardnerville, Nevada. His brother, William F. Frevert, served eighteen months overseas with the 487th Aero Squadron. Born of a family of patriots, he lived and served as becomes a son of such a family. His gold star in the banners of Douglas and Nevada will shine as long as the honor of the flag he died for shall survive. Besides his parents and brother, William, he is survived by other brothers, Edward A., Henry, Fred and Elmer J. Frevert and by two sisters, Miss Alvina and Miss Edna Frevert of Gardnerville, Nevada.