The Enterprise, White Salmon, WA., May 29, 1931, page 5
RUTH CAROLINE WALKER CLARK
Funeral services were held Tuesday from the local M.E.
church for Mrs. Ruth Caroline Walker Clark with Rev. E.W McAbee in charge.
Mrs. Ruth Caroline Walker Clark was born Feb. 13, 1854
in Penobscot county Maine. When she was four months old her parents moved
to Potsdam, N.Y. She finished the normal school there and moved with her
parents to Omaha, Neb. There she worked on the "Omaha Bee" a large daily
for seven years. In 1888 she was married to Allen W. Clark of Dassel, Minn.
When her husband's health began to fail, she was appointed U.S. Land Commissioner
for the Crookston, Minn. Land district in his place. She held this office
until she came west in 1916.
She was a member of the Women's Relief Corp at Toledo,
Wash. and was its secretary for about ten years. She was a member of the
Federated Women's Club of Toledo and at one time was a member of the O.E.S.
and Rebeccas. She was also a faithful member of the Presbyterian church.
She was a wonderful mother and grandmother, friend and
neighbor, a great lover of flowers and birds. She had one of the finest flower
gardens in Toledo, as long as she was able to care for it. She wrote a most
beautiful hand up to a week before her death.
She is survived by three children, Mrs. Dora B. Stewart,
of Klickitat; with whom she has made her home for the past eight months;
Alden J. Clark of St. Joseph, Mo. and Mrs. Helen M. Turner of Oakland, Calif.
Fourteen and grandchildren and two great grand children also two sisters,
Mrs. Emma Emery and if Mrs. Maria Cragger and one brother Chas. Walker all
of Omaha, Nebraska.
"If everyone she has benefited would lay a flower on
her grave, she would sleep beneath a wilderness of flowers."
The sincere sympathy of neighbors and friends is extended
to the loved ones bereaved by her going and our prayers to the Father of
all comfort, that his companioning care may be very real to them in these
days.
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