Elmer Floyd Clark
Elmer Floyd Clark was born on 2 December 1905 in Wayne County, Missouri. His obituary gives Greenville, the county seat, and a memorial gives Piedmont. He was raised in Missouri and finished the eighth grade.
He married Velva Lee Clark, who was born in Wayne County in 1906. In 1940 they rented a house in Piedmont, where they had also lived in 1935. Their children were Sanford, born 1929, Melba, born 1930, Guy, born 1933, and Ronald, born 1941.
By 1950 Elmer and Velva had separated, and Velva was keeping house in Piedmont with the younger children. In 1953 Elmer moved from Campbell, Missouri, to Lebanon, Oregon, a mill town in the Willamette Valley. He worked for U.S. Plywood there from 1953 until he retired in December 1970. He married Marie Ward, and her children Paul K. Ward, Robert K. Ward and Phyllis became his stepchildren.
Elmer was 66 and living at 785 Kees Street when he was taken to Lebanon Community Hospital on Monday, 14 August 1972, and was found dead on arrival. The Rev. Bard Marshall held the funeral at Huston Funeral Home, and he was buried in the Lebanon IOOF Cemetery. His obituary names his four children, Sanford, Guy, Ron and Melba, all of Missouri, his brother Eugene Clark of Granite City, Illinois, and eight grandchildren.
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Cite: Heirology, "Elmer Floyd Clark (1905-1972)", https://heirology.com/ancestors/elmer-floyd-clark-1905-1972-3894a9.