Mr. Clark died Tuesday at the Kansas University Medical Center in Kansas City, Kan., following a long illness.
He was born on May 7, 1929, in Butler County, Mo. He grew up on a farm and attended schools near Butler, Mo. He farmed for a few years and later worked as a meat cutter in California for 12 years. He moved to the Baldwin area in 1968 and worked as a meat cutter in Lawrence and Ottawa. In 1979, he purchased Clark's Cleaners in Baldwin and purchased Royal Cleaners in Ottawa in 1987.
He served in the U.S. Army from 1953 to 1955 and in the U.S. Army Reserves for the next eight years.
He was married to Ann M. Fowler. She survives of the home.
Other survivors include four daughters, Lori Rogers, Baldwin, Judy Osburn, Newellton, Calif., and Patricia Arseneaux and Rita Paddie, both of St. Joseph, La.; three brothers, Delmar, Poplar Bluff, Mo., and Cecil and Robert, both of Broseley, Mo.; and five sisters, Wilma Gallamore, Visalia, Calif., Florence Haag, Broseley, Mo., Gladys Roark, Piggot, Ark., Lillian Lewis, Poplar Bluff, Mo., and Sue Yingling, Cherry Tree, Pa.
Wednesday, July 25, 1990 ljworld
Mr. Clark died Tuesday at the Kansas University Medical Center in Kansas City, Kan., following a long illness.
He was born on May 7, 1929, in Butler County, Mo. He grew up on a farm and attended schools near Butler, Mo. He farmed for a few years and later worked as a meat cutter in California for 12 years. He moved to the Baldwin area in 1968 and worked as a meat cutter in Lawrence and Ottawa. In 1979, he purchased Clark's Cleaners in Baldwin and purchased Royal Cleaners in Ottawa in 1987.
He served in the U.S. Army from 1953 to 1955 and in the U.S. Army Reserves for the next eight years.
He was married to Ann M. Fowler. She survives of the home.
Other survivors include four daughters, Lori Rogers, Baldwin, Judy Osburn, Newellton, Calif., and Patricia Arseneaux and Rita Paddie, both of St. Joseph, La.; three brothers, Delmar, Poplar Bluff, Mo., and Cecil and Robert, both of Broseley, Mo.; and five sisters, Wilma Gallamore, Visalia, Calif., Florence Haag, Broseley, Mo., Gladys Roark, Piggot, Ark., Lillian Lewis, Poplar Bluff, Mo., and Sue Yingling, Cherry Tree, Pa.
Wednesday, July 25, 1990 ljworld