Jean E. Clarke |
| Posted 2018-07-26 by Pat R |
| Wickenburg Sun (Wickenburg, Arizona) Thursday, June 14, 1984, p. 17 Jean E. Clarke, 80, a Westpark resident, died in Wickenburg Community Hospital on June 6. Clarke was born on March 5, 1904, in Hudson, N.Y., and married Fremont Fairfield Clarke on July 31, 1928, in Winnipeg, Canada. She traveled throughout the world making her home with her husband, who was a mining engineer. They lived in various locations in the United States, Canada and the Philippine Islands. She was active in numerous art and theater projects and in community work for her church in Rapid City, S.D., Minneapolis (Edina), Minn., and Hastings on the Hudson, N.Y. Those groups included the Rapid City Little Theater, Phelps Memorial Hospital and Hastings on the Hudson Historical Society. Living in Arizona for 19 years and moving to Wickenburg with her husband in August of 1966, Clarke continued her active artistic and personal contributions by working with the Wickenburg Community Hospital Auxiliary and the Desert Caballeros Western Museum. In Wickenburg she sang in the choir, arranged flowers, designed sets for plays and did artwork for other programs. She was also a member of the Wickenburg Country Club. She attended finishing school at Miss Fuller's School at Dobbs Ferry, N.Y.; New Pultz Normal School at New Pultz, N.Y., and Parson's Institute of Graphics and Fine Arts in New York City. Clarke is survived by her husband, Fremont Clarke, of Wickenburg; one son, Douglas Fremont Clarke, of South Bend, Ind.; two daughters, Cathryn Lysbeth Hermann, of Teaneck, N.J., and Margaret Ann Galvin, of Shelburne Falls, Mass.; one brother, William Rees Williams Jr., of South Bend; seven grandchildren, three great-grandchildren and five nieces and nephews. Services were in the Wickenburg Funeral Home Chapel on June 8 at 10 a.m. with First Presbyterian Church of Wickenburg Pastor Bruce McQueen officiating. The cremation and arrangements were handled by the Wickenburg Funeral Home. Contributions in her memory can be made to the Maricopa County Historical Society and the Desert Caballeros Western Museum. |
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