Clark - Albert
ALBERT CLARK
Source: Crawfordsville Journal Review 11 Oct 1974 p 3
Wallace - Albert "Champ" Clark, 74, retired educator died at 11 p.m. Thursday in Culver Hospital, Crawfordsville. He retired in 1962 after 38 years as a teacher and principal in the Hammond School system and moved to oHemlocl Lake near Wallace. Mr. Clark was a member of Hillsboro United Methodist Church of which he was a director in which he taught the Come-Join-Us Sunday Shcool class; a 50 year member of Wallace Lodge 495, F&AM; of Phi Delta Kapp, honorary educational fraternity; spiritual chairman of Indiana Parent-Teacher Association; life member of the Indiana Association of Jr-Sr HS Principals; and member of the National Council of BS of A and recipeint of the Silver Beaver award. He was a graduate of Central Normal College and also studied at Butler Univeristy. Born Nov 10, 1899, near Sheridan he was a son of Isaac and Olive Wood Clark. He married in 1922 Dorothy Hamm of Wallace, who survives. Also surviving are a son, Leonard of Richmond; a daughter, Mrs. Roberta Bacon of Dearborn, Mich; two grandsons, Tom Bacon and Andy Clark and sister, Mrs. Marie A;len of Indianapolis. A son died in infancy. Funeral services will be conducted at 2:30 p.m. Sunday in Servies-Thomas Funeral Home, Waynetown, where friends may call after 2 p.m. Saturday. Masonic services will be at 8 p.m. Saturday at the funeral home. Interment will be in Waynetown Masonic Cemetery, Rev. Ernest Hayden will officiate. - kbz