Clark, Lois Y. "Dotty" 1915-2006

CLARK, HITZEMANN, CLEMENTSON

Posted By: Linda Ziemann, Volunteer (email)
Date: 5/3/2007 at 21:08:47

AKRON, Iowa -- Lois Y. "Dotty" Clark, 90, of Akron passed away Monday, Feb. 6, 2006, at Akron Care Center.

Services will be 10:30 a.m. Friday at Wesley United Methodist Church in Akron, with Neil Peck, lay pastor, officiating. Burial will be in Riverside Cemetery. Visitation will be after 3 p.m. today, with the family present after 6 p.m. and a prayer service at 7 p.m., at Carlsen Funeral Home-Schroeder Chapel in Akron.

Lois Yvonne "Dotty" Clark was born May 27, 1915, in Akron, the daughter of Louis Charles and Winifred (Clementson) Hitzemann. She was baptized and confirmed into the Christian faith. She attended school in Akron and graduated from Akron High School in 1933. She attended Wayne State Teacher's College in Wayne, Neb., for two years. She graduated in 1935. She taught school for one year at Lonesome Holllow School in Sioux Township, near Westfield, Iowa. Later, she taught for 10 years at Jones School in Portland Township, near Akron.

She was united in marriage to Lloyd W. Clark on Aug. 20, 1947. She continued her teaching in Westfield from 1946 to 1956 and from 1966 to 1979. She later taught in Akron from 1956 to 1964. She retired after 40 years of teaching. Lloyd passed away Oct. 15, 1980. For the past five years, she had been a resident of Akron Care Center.

She was a longtime member of Wesley United Methodist Church, where she enjoyed playing bells. While a resident of the care center, she continued playing bells for the Akron Bell Choir. She was active in the Akron Senior Center, where she spent many hours decorating the hall and bulletin boards, something she learned from 40-plus years of teaching.

Survivors include a sister-in-law, Shirley Clark of Spencer, Iowa; a nephew and his wife, Darrell and Gwen Oltmanns of Elkhorn, Neb.; three nieces and their husbands, Rochelle and Bill Lamport of Leesburg, Va., Collette and Leo Rossiter of Spencer, Iowa, and Jennifer and Pat Schomberg of Fort Dodge, Iowa; and other special friends and cousins.

She was preceded in death by her parents; and her husband.

Source: Sioux City Journal