SULLIVAN, Clara

Wickenburg Sun, Wickenburg, Arizona February 29, 1968, page 15 Clara Sullivan Funeral services will be held at 11 a.m. Saturday at St. Alban’s Episcopal Church for Mrs. Clara Sullivan. She was the wife of Robert Sullivan, retired Santa Fe station agent here. She died February 27 in Community Hospital following an extended illness. The Rev. William D. White, Rector, will officiate at the services and burial will follow in the Wickenburg Cemetery. Mrs. Sullivan, who had made her home here since 1945, played a leading role in the successful effort to establish an Episcopalian Church her which became St. Alban’s. She was also active in the Easter Star. A native of Kansas, she was born in Pomona September 10, 1887. She was a graduate of the Good Samaritan School of Nursing in Los Angeles in 1912 and for three years was Night supervisor at the Women’s and Children’s Hospital in New York City. Later she was on the nursing staff at the Santa Fe Employee’s Hospital in Los Angeles and was so occupied when she and Mr. Sullivan met and were married in San Diego in 1923. The Sullivans came to Arizona the same year, living in Flagstaff and Winslow and later in Albuquerque as Mr. Sullivan’s duties with the railroad took him to those cities. They first came to Wickenburg in 1923, returning in 1945 to make this their home, Mr. Sullivan retired in 1965. In addition to her husband, Mrs. Sullivan is survived by two nieces, Mrs. Leah Pennybacker and Mrs. Aileen Strauss, both of Los Angeles, and several grand nieces and nephew. The family has suggested memorial gifts to St. Alban’s.