Virginia was born in the year the United States entered the Great War to Charles Willis Curtis Jr. and Margaret Covode (Blair) Curtis, the first of five children. Birth was at the home built on Warren Avenue for her parents the prior year.
Virginia graduated from Marlborough High School in 1934 and was the wife of Lewis F. Clark for 60 years up to his death in 1994. During high school, she enjoyed performing in plays directed by local actor, Morton L. Stevens. In addition to Marlborough, she lived a number of years in Southborough and Northborough, as well as Winters in Venice, Florida in her later life. During WW II, she worked for the Raytheon Company in Marlborough, assembling radar components, but otherwise remained a homemaker. Her hobbies included oil painting, reading and playing the piano, as well as ice skating and skiing. She was fond of dancing ever since taking lessons in her youth at the Wayside Inn, where she met carmaker Henry Ford, a folk dance enthusiast.
Virginia was predeceased by her brothers and sisters, Charles W. Curtis III, James Blair Curtis, Margaret Frances Weiss and Mary Belle Pratt. She was also predeceased by her son, Kenneth Curtis Clark, in 2010.
At the time of her death, she was survived by a son, Lewis F. Clark, Jr. of Venice, Florida & Marlborough and two daughters, Mary Belle Scott of Upton and Margaret Jane Clark of Marlborough, as well as 8 grandchildren, three great-grandsons and one great-great-grandson. She was very fond of and devoted to her many grandchildren. Virginia had a sunny, generally easy-going disposition. She also had a wry sense of humor and an endearing warmth.
Virginia graduated from Marlborough High School in 1934 and was the wife of Lewis F. Clark for 60 years up to his death in 1994. During high school, she enjoyed performing in plays directed by local actor, Morton L. Stevens. In addition to Marlborough, she lived a number of years in Southborough and Northborough, as well as Winters in Venice, Florida in her later life. During WW II, she worked for the Raytheon Company in Marlborough, assembling radar components, but otherwise remained a homemaker. Her hobbies included oil painting, reading and playing the piano, as well as ice skating and skiing. She was fond of dancing ever since taking lessons in her youth at the Wayside Inn, where she met carmaker Henry Ford, a folk dance enthusiast.
Virginia was predeceased by her brothers and sisters, Charles W. Curtis III, James Blair Curtis, Margaret Frances Weiss and Mary Belle Pratt. She was also predeceased by her son, Kenneth Curtis Clark, in 2010.
At the time of her death, she was survived by a son, Lewis F. Clark, Jr. of Venice, Florida & Marlborough and two daughters, Mary Belle Scott of Upton and Margaret Jane Clark of Marlborough, as well as 8 grandchildren, three great-grandsons and one great-great-grandson. She was very fond of and devoted to her many grandchildren. Virginia had a sunny, generally easy-going disposition. She also had a wry sense of humor and an endearing warmth.
Virginia was born in the year the United States entered the Great War to Charles Willis Curtis Jr. and Margaret Covode (Blair) Curtis, the first of five children. Birth was at the home built on Warren Avenue for her parents the prior year.
Virginia graduated from Marlborough High School in 1934 and was the wife of Lewis F. Clark for 60 years up to his death in 1994. During high school, she enjoyed performing in plays directed by local actor, Morton L. Stevens. In addition to Marlborough, she lived a number of years in Southborough and Northborough, as well as Winters in Venice, Florida in her later life. During WW II, she worked for the Raytheon Company in Marlborough, assembling radar components, but otherwise remained a homemaker. Her hobbies included oil painting, reading and playing the piano, as well as ice skating and skiing. She was fond of dancing ever since taking lessons in her youth at the Wayside Inn, where she met carmaker Henry Ford, a folk dance enthusiast.
Virginia was predeceased by her brothers and sisters, Charles W. Curtis III, James Blair Curtis, Margaret Frances Weiss and Mary Belle Pratt. She was also predeceased by her son, Kenneth Curtis Clark, in 2010.
At the time of her death, she was survived by a son, Lewis F. Clark, Jr. of Venice, Florida & Marlborough and two daughters, Mary Belle Scott of Upton and Margaret Jane Clark of Marlborough, as well as 8 grandchildren, three great-grandsons and one great-great-grandson. She was very fond of and devoted to her many grandchildren. Virginia had a sunny, generally easy-going disposition. She also had a wry sense of humor and an endearing warmth.
Virginia graduated from Marlborough High School in 1934 and was the wife of Lewis F. Clark for 60 years up to his death in 1994. During high school, she enjoyed performing in plays directed by local actor, Morton L. Stevens. In addition to Marlborough, she lived a number of years in Southborough and Northborough, as well as Winters in Venice, Florida in her later life. During WW II, she worked for the Raytheon Company in Marlborough, assembling radar components, but otherwise remained a homemaker. Her hobbies included oil painting, reading and playing the piano, as well as ice skating and skiing. She was fond of dancing ever since taking lessons in her youth at the Wayside Inn, where she met carmaker Henry Ford, a folk dance enthusiast.
Virginia was predeceased by her brothers and sisters, Charles W. Curtis III, James Blair Curtis, Margaret Frances Weiss and Mary Belle Pratt. She was also predeceased by her son, Kenneth Curtis Clark, in 2010.
At the time of her death, she was survived by a son, Lewis F. Clark, Jr. of Venice, Florida & Marlborough and two daughters, Mary Belle Scott of Upton and Margaret Jane Clark of Marlborough, as well as 8 grandchildren, three great-grandsons and one great-great-grandson. She was very fond of and devoted to her many grandchildren. Virginia had a sunny, generally easy-going disposition. She also had a wry sense of humor and an endearing warmth.
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