Edith Clark

Edith Maxine Clark, the youngest of three children of Cloe Belle (Brandon) Brackett and Lee Eugene Brackett, was born in Cozahome, Arkansas on December 28, 1912. Edith attended school in Cozahome and Marshall, Arkansas.

On May 22, 1928, Edith and Jesse Norris Clark were married in Bloomfield, Arkansas. As the depression worsened, the young family moved to Glenwood, Iowa in search of work. They lived with Edith's mother in the family home on west edge of Glenwood. Norris began driving a delivery truck for the Cogley Ice House. Edith enjoyed being a mother and raising their four girls, Wanda, Shirley, Virginia, and Kathie. The family was members of the First Christian Church in Glenwood. Edith loved to garden, read, and enjoyed basketball, baseball, and quilting. She was an active member of the Rebekah Lodge and the Ladies Encampment Auxiliary, where she held numerous local and state offices.

Edith and Norris had been married 48 years, when Norris died in 1976. Edith continued to live at the family home for 72 years until her health forced her to move to Linnwood Estates and then to Glen Haven Home in Glenwood. Edith was the third generation to have lived on the Levi Brandon homestead, a fact she was always very proud of.

Edith died at Glen Haven Home on June 4, 2009 at the age of 96 years, 5 months, and 7 days. She was preceded in death by her parents Cloe and Lee Brackett; husband Norris Clark; brother Claude Brackett and wife Loretta; sister Edna Kunze and husband Charles; son-in-law Roger Lee Bichel; and grandson Christopher Clark Bichel.

Edith is survived by her daughters, Wanda Morrow and husband David of Las Vegas, NV, Shirley McMahill and husband Don of Surprise, AZ, Virginia Shepard and husband Roger of Chandler, AZ, and Kathie Radford and husband Charles of Glenwood; 9 grandchildren; 15 great grandchildren; nieces and nephews; other relatives and friends.