Mrs. KEITH (Hope Adelaide Haining) CLARK 1910-2007

SHAW, HAINING, CLARK, KUSHA, MILLER, LIND, LENNON, MEYER, RYAN

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Date: 12/23/2007 at 15:17:15

Hope Clark

Hope A. Clark, 97, of Waukon died Wednesday, November 14, 2007 at Good Samaritan Center in Waukon. Funeral services were held Saturday, November 17 at St. Paul's United Methodist Church in Waukon, with Rev. Richard Iles officiating. Burial was in Oakland Cemetery, Waukon.

Hope Adelaide Clark was born March 2, 1910 in Staples, MN in a log cabin that her father had built. She was the daughter of John Allison and Mattie Emma (Shaw) Haining. After graduating from Staples High School, she attended the University of Minnesota and then graduated with a degree in education from Valparaiso University in Valparaiso, IN.

She began teaching school in Castalia, where she met Keith Winters Clark at a church social. The two were married May 29, 1938 in Staples, MN and returned to the Forest Mills area of Allamakee County, where Hope soon became a busy homemaker and mother. After her children were in school, she returned to teaching in Waterville and Dorchester. Later she worked as a nurse's aide at both Dr. Rominger's office and Veterans Memorial Hospital in Waukon. She also did bookkeeping for her and Keith's business, Waukon Implement.

Hope was a very active member of St. Paul's United Methodist Church, where she taught Sunday School and participated in various women's organizations. She was also a member of Eastern Star. Hope's special interests included reading, gardening, raising house plants and flowers, crochet, quilting and handiwork. She was an excellent seamstress and when the children were young made many of their clothes. Hope always had a ready smile, and her good sense of humor made her a friend to everyone she met.

Survivors include her four children, Barbara (Lee) Kuska of Beloit, WI, Sally Miller of Marshalltown, Bill (Marilyn) Clark of Waukon and Tom (Marita) Clark of North Liberty; 10 grandchildren; 17 great-grandchildren; and a sister, Lois (Tom) Lind of Tacoma, WA. She was preceded in death by her parents; her husband, Keith, who died in 1998; a son-in-law, Gregg Miller; three brothers, John, Roscoe and Roger Haining; and three sisters, Wilma Lennon, Miriam Meyer and Barbara Ryan.

Casketbearers were Larry Straate, Larry Lamborn, Keith Kerl, Clark and Scott Bollman, and Mike Miller.

The Waukon Standard, November 28, 2007

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