How to delete ICloud account given forgotten password

I cannot manage ICloud so I would like to delete it. The appleid that shows up in the icloud portion of settings is an old email from two years ago and the system does not like any password I can dream up that might ever have been the right one. The inflexibility of IOS at this point prohibits my trying to get the password from Apple. If anyone has a real solution I would like to hear it as I have tried all the ones that start with "Why don't you try ...?"
Thanks in advance.
Ray Z.

randers4,
Inasmuch as you instructions were probably right on target they were in fact somewhat mystifing so I followed the rest of your advice and checked in to the Genius Bar at the local Apple Store. There I found an able technical person who dived into the problem until he realized he also could not solve it because I had forgoten the password to the iCloud account.
Then I called the number he gave me for Apple support and was put in touch with another able expert who walked me down a pathway towards success until that also failed. He then turned me over to "Senior Technical Advisor" who took over the project and proceeded to engineer a solution. He had me hook up my IPAD to my MacMini running SnowLeopard and bring up the connection in iTunes. From there I followed his instructions with unwaivering rectitude until the final solution was achieved. Immediately afterwards he must have waived his "Men in Black" forget wand over the phone at me and caused me to forget some of the steps we went through so I cannot reproduce them here. However, such geniuses exist and they reside at the Apple Support Center.
Thank you again for your advice and guidance. All is well in Apple Land.
Raymond Zachary

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