Floyd Franklin CLARK

CLARK, BOX, MADDY, ROSSITER, WOOD, ANDREWS, LANGFORD, WHITTLESEY, MORTON, MILLS

Posted By: Sarah Thorson Little (email)
Date: 3/30/2008 at 13:54:27

CLEAR LAKE - Floyd Franklin Clark, 86, of 2112 S. Lakeview Dr., died Tuesday (July 18, 2000) at Muse Norris Hospice Inpatient Unit, Mason City. Funeral services will be held at 10:30 a.m. Friday at Clear Lake Evangelical Free Church, with the Rev. David Wiersbe officiating. Interment will be held at Memorial Park Cemetery, Mason City. Visitation will be from 5 to 8 p.m. today at Ward-Van Slyke Colonial Chapel, Clear Lake, and will resume one hour prior to the service at the church Friday. Memorials may be given to the Floyd Franklin Clark Memorial Fund or the Evangelical Free Church.

Floyd Franklin Clark, the son of Jess and Emma (Box) Clark, was born Jan. 23, 1914, on a farm near Galt. Floyd married Leila Maddy on June 15, 1935, at Chariton. Floyd began farming near Russell in 1936. Their first years he broke horses for a dollar a day and worked part time in coal mines to support the farm. He farmed in Lucas and Marion counties in southern Iowa until 1950. In 1950 he realized a life-time dream of owning a farm in northern Iowa. He owned and farmed several farms in the Britt and Mason City areas until retiring and moving to Clear Lake in 1965. From 1965 until the early 1980s, he and his wife, Leila, delivered motor homes for Winnebago. He drove over 1 million miles and would eventually visit every state in the U. S. and every Canadian province. Floyd attended the Clear Lake Evangelical Free Church and was on the Board of Directors of the Clear Lake Senior Citizens. He enjoyed fishing, hunting, playing cards and telling stories of growing up with 11 brothers and sisters in the horse-and-buggy days. He loved all activities that involved his grandchildren and training and showing off his dog, Duke.

Floyd is survived by his wife, Leila, Clear Lake; three children, Howard Clark and his wife, Genevieve, Davis City, Yvonne Rossiter and her husband, Carrol, Nora Springs, and Joyce Wood and her husband, Leland, Hanlontown; eight grandchildren, Travis Clark and his wife, Michelle, Tracy Andrews and her husband Barry, Carmen Langford and her husband, Jim, Connie Rossiter, Christy Rossiter, Charles Rossiter, Bryan Wood, and Craig Wood and his wife, Barbara; ten great-grandchildren, Caitlin and Cierra Clark, Makayla and Kyle Andrews, Christina and Crystal Langford, and Scott, Lisa, Christofer and Shana Wood; brothers, Lewis, Jay and Clifford Clark; sisters, Anna Mae Whittlesey, Jessie Morton and Ruby Mills; and many nieces and nephews. He was preceded in death by his parents, Jess and Emma Clark; sister, Eva Mae; and brothers, Wilbur, Lee, Donald and Clyde.

Mason City Globe-Gazette
July 20, 2000