Judith Clark, age 82, of Marshall, MO, passed away Thursday, June 9, 2022, at The Arbors at Westport Estates in Marshall.
Graveside services will be held at 10:30 a.m. Saturday, June 11, 2022, at Sunset Gardens Cemetery in Marshall. Visitation will be from 9:30 a.m. to 10:15 a.m. Saturday at Campbell-Lewis Funeral Home in Marshall. In lieu of flowers, memorials are suggested to Bright Beginnings Early Childhood Center at Our Redeemer Lutheran Church. An online guestbook is available at www.campbell-lewis.
Judith was born in Ft Worth, Texas, on April 2, 1940. Her father, Benjamin Hawkins was a CPA for the IRS, and her mother, Alta Latimer Hawkins, had been a secretary for TP Coal and Oil, in Thurber, TX.
She attended Texas Tech University, Lubbock, TX, and met a pilot for the USAF, Lt. Ronald Clark. They were married in Wichita, KS, as he was deployed to Viet Nam for a first mission. Since Ron was in Strategic Command, they moved often to Air Force Bases throughout the Midwest. Ron Jr. was born in Knob Noster, MO, and Geoff at Lincoln, NE, on military bases. Judith often shared standing in the yard, at Whiteman Air Force Base, with babies in arms, watching the B-52 squadron taking off for the Bay of Pigs. She, like many wives during the Viet Nam War, raised her boys alone and served with the Waiting Wives groups on military bases.
After Ron retired, they moved to Missouri and settled 5 miles outside of Marshall, near Miami. Judith was a teaching assistant at Bueker Middle School and decided to finish her degree at Missouri Valley College.
After she and Ron divorced, Judith moved into town, bought a home, and felt excited to use her teaching degree teaching at Blosser Home and after it closed, the Marshall Habilitation Center where she retired. When her son Geoff moved to Marshall, she cared for him until he died in July 2020. She loved cats and always had room for one or two. She has been a member of Our Redeemer Lutheran Church since 1978.
Judith is survived by her oldest son, Ron Clark, Jr, and his wife, Lori Clark; and three grandsons: Nathaniel Lawrence Clark, Hunter Benjamin Clark, and Caleb Ronald Clark, all who live in Portland, Oregon.