Cora E. (Crabtree) CLARK

CLARK, CRABTREE, STENDE, FEURT

Posted By: Sarah Thorson Little (email)
Date: 1/2/2012 at 19:50:27

October 21, 1893 -- June 6, 1986

Cora E. Clark, 92, Bemidji, died Thursday at Bemidji Nursing Home. Funeral services will be held Monday at the First Baptist Church, with the Rev. Larry Forsberg officiating. Visitation will be at the church for one hour before services. Interment under the direction of the Cease Funeral Chapel, Bemidji, will be in Greenwood Cemetery.

She was born Oct. 21, 1893, to William and Carrie Crabtree in Dows, Iowa, and she moved to Blackduck with her family in the early 1900s. She married William Clark on May 21, 1913, and they moved to North Battleford, Saskatchewan.
She returned to Bemidji in 1928 and was employed as a seamstress by O'Meara's. She was an active member of the First Baptist Church. She is survived by three sons, Alvin and Laurence, Minneapolis, and Bill, Littleton Colo.; three daughters, Ellen Clark, Bemidji, Wilma [Mrs. Russell] Stende, Anoka, Joyce [Mrs. Cort] Feurt, Flint, Mich.; Two brothers, Merle Crabtree, Lake Park, and Herman Crabtree, Appleton; 15 grandchildren; and 23 great-grandchildren. She was preceded in death by two great-grandsons, one sister and five brothers. The family asks that memorials be given to Beltrami Nursing Home or the First Baptist Church.