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Show FUNERAL HELD IN PROVO FOR LOCAL RESIDENT Funeral services were conducted in the Provo Second ward chapel last Friday afternoon for Franklin Frank-lin Clark, 85, resident of Springville Spring-ville for nearly fifteen years, who died last Monday at the home of a daughter, Mrs. W. L. Mildenhall, in Provo. Mr. Clark was born May 12, 1859, in Provo, a son of Edward W. and Eliza Mellor Clark. He married Mary Elizabeth Nelson, Jan. 21, 1883, in Salt Lake Endowment Endow-ment house. They made their home for several years in Santaquin and Spring Lake where he engaged in farming and mining. His family then moved to Provo in 1902 where they lived until the death of his wife July 16, 1928. In April, 1936, he married Patience Pa-tience Russell Clark in the Salt Lake temple. They made their home in Springville where Mr. Clark continued as an active L. D. S. church member. During his life he served as a high priest, in a Texas mission for two and a half years, a home mission for two years, and was also a member of the Sons of the Utah Pioneers organization acting as flag bearer of the martial band fife and drum corps. As a boy, Mr. Clark visited the famous camp of the Indian Black-hawk. Black-hawk. In 1937 he climbed Timpa-nogos Timpa-nogos to set a record of being, the oldest person ever to reach the top. Survivors include his wife, Patience Pa-tience Clark, Springville, two sons Frank D. Clark, Los Angeles, Cal., Clyde Clark, Salt Lake City, two daughters, Mrs. W. L. Mildenhall, and Mrs. Elizabeth D. Myrup, of Provo; one brother, John Clark, Los Angeles, Cal., one sister, Eliza Perry, Ashton, Ida., twenty grandchildren, grand-children, 18 great-grandchildren; and one great-great-grandchild. |