Sadie Lila Beatrice (Mikelson) CLARK

CLARK, NELSON, MIKELSON, DURST, CHEVILLE, WITZEL

Posted By: Sarah Thorson Little (email)
Date: 11/6/2016 at 23:46:27

February 20, 1896 ---- October 28, 1993

Sadie Lila Beatrice Clark, 97, passed away October 28, at the Clarion Health Care Center in Clarion. Funeral services were held on Monday, November 1, at 10:00 a.m. at the United Methodist Church in Kanawha. The Reverend Matthew Miller officiated and music was provided by Lois J. Schroeder and Gary Brandt. Ewing Funeral Home was in charge of the arrangements. Interment was in the Evergreen Cemetery, Clarion.

Sadie, the daughter of Hogan and Bertha Nelson Mikelson, was born February 20, 1896 in Cabrey, Illinois. When she was a baby, she moved with her parents to a farm near Clarion. She attended the country school northwest of Clarion which is now a historical site in Clarion. She was present in the building when the four-leaf clover was chosen as the 4-H emblem. She was confirmed in the Christian faith in the St Olaf Church northwest of Belmond. She graduated from Clarion High School. Sadie was united in marriage with Charles Albert Clark on December 23, 1918, in Clarion, while Albert was serving in the Navy during World War I. Following the war, they farmed near Clarion. In 1934 they moved to a farm in the Kanawha area. The couple retired in Kanawha in 1961.

She is survived by her children: Ruth and her husband, Derrel Durst, of Paullina; Martin and his wife, LaRue of Dyersville; Beth and her husband, Norman Cheville of Ames; one sister, Lila Witzel of Alliance, Ohio; ten grandchildren; 12 great grandchildren and one great-great grandchild. She was preceded in death by her parents; her husband, Albert on July 6, 1983; one son; two sisters; three brothers; and a grandson.

Wright County Monitor -- Clarion, Iowa
November 10, 1993