Joseph Clayborne 3d | Police chief, 59
Joseph G. Clayborne 3d, 59, police chief for his home town of West Conshohocken since 1983, died of heart failure Friday at Frankford Hospital-Torresdale Campus in Philadelphia.
Joseph G. Clayborne 3d, 59, police chief for his home town of West Conshohocken since 1983, died of heart failure Friday at Frankford Hospital-Torresdale Campus in Philadelphia.
Born in Philadelphia, Mr. Clayborne attended Upper Merion High School and served in Vietnam as an Army helicopter door gunner with the 101st Airborne Division in 1969 and 1970.
From 1972 to 1979, he was a Montgomery County deputy sheriff while working part time from 1973 as a West Conshohocken police officer.
Mr. Clayborne left the sheriff's office to become a full-time officer in West Conshohocken in 1979.
He was a member of the Police Chiefs Association of Montgomery County, the Pennsylvania Chiefs of Police Association, Montgomery County Fraternal Order of Police Lodge 14, and the Pennsylvania Association of Arson Investigators.
Mr. Clayborne was also a member of the George Clay Fire Company, the Conshohocken Number 2 Fire Company, the Conshohocken Bocce Club, the American Turners Club of Roxborough, and Gladwyne VFW Post 6956.
He is survived by his wife, Cynthia; a son, Joseph 4th; a daughter, Jennifer; two brothers; three sisters; and several nieces and nephews.
A visitation is scheduled for 6 to 9 p.m. tomorrow at the William A. Moore Funeral Home, 708 Fayette St., Conshohocken, and from 8:30 to 10 a.m. Thursday there, before a 10:30 a.m. Funeral Mass at St. Gertrude Roman Catholic Church, Bullock Street and Merion Avenue, West Conshohocken. Burial will be in Calvary Cemetery, West Conshohocken.