Clara Belle (Pletcher) JUDD

JUDD, FAUST, SMITH, BERNDT, GIBSON, PLETCHER

Posted By: Sarah Thorson Little (email)
Date: 7/17/2012 at 20:22:20

August 9, 1921 ---- July 10, 2012

URBANA, IL – On July 10, 2012, the family of Clara Belle Judd celebrated her transition to be with her Lord after almost 91 years on this Earth. Clara IS a great lady (there is no WAS in God's eternal kingdom). Clara was the wife of the late Robert William Judd. Her parents and one sister also preceded her in death.

She was born on Aug. 9, 1921, in a farmhouse in central Iowa, grew up on a farm near Clarion, Iowa, went to a nearby teachers college and taught in a one-room schoolhouse near her family farm. She married Robert Judd in 1944. At the time of their marriage he was a captain and B-25 pilot in the Army Air Corps serving in the South Pacific. She is survived by her five children, Pat (Gary) Faust of Ellisville, Mo., Thomas (Susan) Judd of Excelsior, Minn., Marilyn (Bob) Smith of Sydney, Australia, William (Wendy) Judd of Deephaven, Minn., and Rosalind (Dave) Berndt of Bloomington, Ill.

She is also survived by her sister, Normadeen Gibson of Mesa, Ariz. Clara left 15 grandchildren and 13 great-grandchildren. Many nieces and nephews and friends filled her life with joy and love.

A memorial celebration will be held at 11:30 a.m. Saturday, July 21, at the First Christian Church, 3601 S. Staley Road, Champaign. Prior to the services, a time of visitation will be provided from 10 a.m. until the service begins. Burial will follow at Mount Olive Cemetery, Mayview. In lieu of other expressions of sympathy, memorial contributions may be made to the Christian Churches Disability Ministry, 3123 Pride Road, Louisville, P.O. Box 310, TN 37777, where Clara's grandson Scott is a resident, or Cookson Hills Christian Ministry, RR3, Box 200, Kansas, OK 74347.

News-Gazette -- Champaign-Urbana, Illinois
July 17, 2012

[daughter of Albert and Hattie (Olson) Pletcher]