Rev Forrest G. Clark d. 1981

CLARK, DROWN, CHASE, LINGLE, WILLIAM, BURLESON

Posted By: Sharyl Ferrall
Date: 5/4/2006 at 06:05:30

Funeral services will be conducted tomorrow for Rev. Forrest G. Clark, 63, of 17 Hale st., pastor of Rockport United Methodist Church and former pastor at Methodist churches in Gloucester and East Saugus. He died Sunday at Addison Gilbert Hospital in Gloucester after a short illness.

Born in Monmouth, Iowa, he was educated in public schools and Cornell College in Mt. Vernon, Iowa.

He was graduated from Boston University School of Theology and ordained a Methodist minister in 1947 at Malden Centre United Mehodist Church, where he had been a student minister.

From 1947 to 1953 Rev. Clark was pastor of the United Methodist Churches in Miles, and Sabula, Iowa. In 1958, he returned to Massachusetts and ministered to the Riverdale United Methodist Church, now the Bay View and Riverdale Church, in Gloucester. He served there until 1969 and then was minister at the East Saugus United Methodist Church until 1976. He had lived in Rockport nearly five years.

Active with youth activities, Rev. Clark was a director and teacher at Rolling Ridge Conference Center in North Andover, and was a Boy Scout troopmaster with a North Shore scouting council.

Rev. Clark was a past president of the Cape Ann Interfaith Council and a former member of the Attica Lodge of Masons of Sloan, Iowa.

In 1968, he led a Massachusetts delegation to the Poor Peoples March in Washington, D.C.

He leaves his wife, Marilyn (Drown); two sons, Darryl E. and Francis H. Clark, both of Gainsville, Fla.; a daughter, Rebecca Clark of Adamant, Vt.; eight brothers, Everett of California, Eugene of Illinois, Alva Jr. of Oregon, Theodore, Floyd, Carlisle, Sterling and Leon Clark, all of Iowa; four sisters, Carolyn Chase of California, Gloria Lingle of Iowa, Dorothea William of Oklahoma and Esther Burleson of Missouri; two grandchildren, and many nieces and nephews.

Funeral services will be conducted at 2 p.m. tomorrow in Rockport United Methodist Church. Burial will be in Wesleyan Cemetery, Gloucester.

-Boston Globe, March 31, 1981