Velva Lee Clark

1906-1999 · Missouri

Born 1906, Wayne County, Missouri

Died 1999

Velva Lee Clark was born on 24 January 1906 in Wayne County, Missouri. Clark was her name from birth. A memorial names her parents as Henry Morgan Clark and Letta Viola Tindell of Piedmont. She went to the second year of high school.

She married Elmer Floyd Clark, born in Wayne County in 1905. In 1940 they rented a house in Piedmont with their children Sanford, 11, Melba, 9, and Guy, 6. A fourth child, Ronald, was born in Piedmont on 21 June 1941.

By 1950 she and Elmer had separated. That April she was 44 and keeping house at Piedmont with Melba, 19, who was working, Guy, 16, and Ronald, 8. Elmer went west to Oregon in 1953.

Velva lived the rest of her long life at Piedmont. She died there on 25 April 1999, aged 93, and was buried in the Masonic Cemetery. Her stone reads "Beloved Mother & Grandmother." Her son Ronald was buried in the same cemetery in 2020; his obituary names his parents, Elmer and Velva Clark, and his sister, Melba Moore of Herculaneum.

Sources

United States census 1940, Missouri, Wayne County, Benton Township, Piedmont city, enumeration district 112-1, sheet 5A, lines 33-37; FamilySearch ark 61903/1:1:K7WR-42B, image 61903/3:1:3QSQ-G9MB-Y7HD.

United States census 1950, Missouri, Wayne County, enumeration district 112-1, sheet 2, lines 1-4; National Archives 1950 census, schedule 3050227, image 43290879-Missouri-121610-0002.

Find a Grave, memorial 28606492 (Velva Lee Clark), Masonic Cemetery, Piedmont, photograph added by Richard Knight, 29 July 2008.

United States census 1940 (record ajm-a12121-clark-census-1940) and 1950 (record ajm-a12121-clark-census-1950); gravestone (record ajm-a12121-velva-clark-stone); Find a Grave memorial 28606492; obituary of Ronald E. Clark, Sr., Morrison Funeral Chapel, Piedmont, May 2020

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