CLARA M. CLARK

CHEROKEE, Iowa---Clara M. Clark, 96, of Cherokee, died Monday, Feb. 26, 1996, at Country Side Estates in Cherokee.

Services will be 11 a.m. Thursday at Immaculate Conception Church in Cherokee with the Rev. James Smith officiating and her godson, Deacon LeRoy Rupp, assisting and homilist. Burial will be in Mount Calvary Cemetery. A Scripture service will be 7 p.m. today, with a rosary by the Catholic Daughters of America at 7:30 p.m., at Greenwood Funeral Home in Cherokee.

Mrs. Clark was born May 10, 1899, on a farm east of Remsen, the daughter of Anton and Elizabeth (Feldman) Wilberding. She attended St. Mary's school in Remsen.

She married Sylvester M. Clark Jan. 5, 1926, at St. Mary's Church, Remsen. The couple farmed in Cherokee County and lived on the family farm west of Aurelia for 42 years. Mr. Clark died April 27, 1972, and she moved to Cherokee in April 1973. She had been a resident of Country Side Estates the last five years.

She was the last member of the Anton Wilberding family that settled in the Remsen community in 1891.

Mrs. Clark was an avid seamstress and was known for her quilts, stuffed animals and crocheting. She enjoyed exhibiting her sewing and crafts at various shows and fairs. She was a member of Immaculate Conception Church and a 50-year member of the Catholic Daughters of America.

Survivors include three daughters, Mary and her husband, Daniel Rhode, of Emerson, Neb., Pat Schumann of LeRoy, Minn., and Kay and her husband, Frank Hase, of Sheldon; a son, Jack and his wife, Lorna, of Cherokee; 20 grandchildren and 42 great-grandchildren.

She was preceded in death by a son-in-law, Virgil Schumann; a grandson, Danny Rohde; eight brothers, Joseph, Charles, Leo, Herman, Aloysius, Anthony, Frances and Linus Wilberding; four sisters, Ida Delperdang, Matilda Rupp, Jean Rupp and Olivia Black.

Pallbearers will be Bill and Jon Schumann, John and Rod Rohde, Brian Hase and Bill Clark.

~Source: The Sioux City Journal—part of the D. Easton Obituary Collection