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Subject: Charles A. Clark Dies
Date: 16 Mar 2002 11:38:25 -0700

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Surnames: CLARK, MANN, DREHER, SUTTLE, GAUTT
Classification: Obituary

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From unidentified newspaper (LA?) Jan or Feb 29, 1932:

Chas. A. Clark Dies
Passed away Saturday; funeral services held Sunday
Funeral services for Charles A. Clark, who passed away Saturday night, were held at 4:30 Sunday afternoon in the Burke & Trotti funeral home with Kenneth Watson, first reader of the First Church of Christ, Scientists, officiating. Burial was in graceland cemetery.
Surviving Mr. Clark are two sons, WH Clark of Lafayette; Y.D. Clark of Tulsa, Oklahoma; one daughter, Mrs. G. C. [Gretchen Clark] Mann, Lake Charles; two granddaughters, Mrs. B.R. Suttle, of Tulsa; and Mrs. Othal Gautt, of Port Arthur; and a grandson, Midshipman Chas. Clark Mann.
Pallbearers were H. C. Shirley, H. D. Ponton, O.H. Castle, J. Alton Foster, G.G. Streaterr, William Allen, John Harrop andand Frank Craft, of Port ARthur.
Mr. Clark was born in Clarksdale, Christian County IL. His father had (illegible) Christian county Kentucky, to Christian county, IL and founded the town of Clarksdale. He was a pioneer in that section and a prominent land and cattle owner.
Mr. Charles A. Clark was educated in Toledo, OH. He was admitted to the bar in Missouri but never engaged in active practice of law. He was a life-long democrat and figured prominently in politics in IL. He was married to Miss Virginia Dreher, of Concord, NC, who passed on about seven years ago in Lake Charles.

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