Funeral services for Fred Clark will be held at 11 a.m. Saturday, April 23, at McWilliams Funeral Home in Jamesport, where friends may call after 11 a.m. Friday. Family visitation will be held one hour prior to the service at the funeral home. Burial will be at the Masonic Cemetery in Jamesport. In lieu of flowers, memorial contributions may be made to the American Cancer Association.
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Fred H. Clark Jr., 79, of Sun Lakes, Ariz., died on April 18, 2011.
Fred was born Sept. 1, 1931, in Trinidad, Colo., to the parents of Jewell Shields Clark and Fred H. Clark Sr. He grew up in Toyah, Texas. When Fred was six, his father passed away and Fred and his sister were adopted by their uncle Bob and his wife Pearl Clark, who moved the children to St. Joe, where they lived at the time. They later moved to Chicago.
During his senior year in high school Fred moved to Bendena, Kan., where he worked in a farm to market truck business. He attended Highland Jr. College in Highland, Kan. He worked in the Bendena State Bank.
Fred served in the Marine Corp. When he returned from the Marines he continued working in the Bendena Bank as a bookkeeper and later became a cashier. Then for a year and a half he became a state bank examiner for the state of Missouri. He later ran the Bendena Bank.
He was a member of the Bendena 440 Masonic Lodge. At his passing, he was a third degree mason.
He married Rosetta Reed on June 12, 1956. They made their home in Atchison, Kan.
Fred worked at the United Missouri Bank in North Kansas City. In 1959 they moved to Nevada, Mo, where Fred helped start Citizen State Bank. The couple moved to Kearney. Fred’s last position in a bank was senior examiner for the Federal Reserve Bank in Kansas City.
Due to health reasons he took an early retirement in 1996. He and his wife later moved to Sun Lakes, Ariz., to be near their family.
Survivors include his wife Rosetta of 55 years; one son, William Reed Clark of Chandler, Ariz.; one sister, Billie Doris Amidon of Penn Yan, N.Y.; and one grandchild.