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The Sabine County Reporter
January 12, 2011, Page 12
Obituaries

Willie Earl Clark

Willie Earl Clark, 67, died in the Colonial Pines Nursing Home Thursday, Jan. 6, 2011, in San Augustine after an illness.

He was born in Hemphill to Edward and Arzell Smith Clark. He worked as a night watchmane for the Hemphill Independent School District.

Clark is survived by sons, Lynn, Richard and Vince Clark, all of Hemphill, and Earl Wayne Clark of Abilene; daughters, Brenda Hargrove of Hemphill and Debbie Kennedy of Farmington, NM; brothers, Glen Dale Clark of Arkansas and Thomas Clark of Hemphill, and sister, Carolyn Clark of Port Arthur; 14 grandchildren and 12 great-grandchildren.

Funeral services were held Sunday, Jan. 9, in the Starr Funeral Home Chapel. Burial was in the Rosevine Cemetery, Rosevine.

Services were under the direction of Starr Funeral Home. Online condolences may be posted at www.starrfuneralhome.com.

(Transcribed by Melinda McLemore Strong, January 2011)

Willie married Linda Kay Retherford before 1959. Linda was born on 23 Sep 1945 in Shreveport, Caddo Parish, Louisiana; died on 24 Aug 2015 in Houston, Harris County, Texas; was buried on 28 Aug 2015 in Rosevine Cemetery, Rosevine, Sabine County, Texas. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Linda Kay Funk, 69, passed away August 24, 2015 in St. Luke's Hospital in Houston, Texas. Linda was born in Shreveport, Louisiana to Richard and Hazel Huffman Retherford. She has been a part of the Hemphill community most of her life, she was a stay at home maker and mother, she was a member of the East Mayfield Missionary Baptist Church. Linda will be dearly missed by all of her friends and family. She was a loving mother, sister, grandmother, and great grandmother.

She is survived by sons: Richard Clark and wife Lisa Jean of Hemphill, Earl Clark of Abilene, Texas, Lynn Clark and wife Samantha of Hemphill, and Vince Clark and wife Jamie of Milam, her brother Terry Retherford of Odessa, her sisters: Melba Rice of Milam, Joann Modisette of Liberty, Sharon Krajewski of Henderson, Texas, and Judy Rouse of Hot Springs, Arkansas, her numerous grandchildren and great grandchildren. She is preceded in death by her daughter Debi Clark.

Visitation will be from 6:00PM until 9:00PM, Thursday, August 27, 2015, in the Starr Funeral Home, 510 Starr St. Hemphill, Texas. Funeral services will be at 11:00AM, Friday, August 28, 2015, in the Starr Funeral Home Chapel. Burial will follow in the Rosevine Cemetery.

Copied from Starr Funeral Home website
Also published in The Sabine County Reporter, September 2, 2015, Page 12

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The military marker on his gravesite is inscribed SSGT US Army World War II.

Edward married Arzell Smith on 22 Nov 1939. Arzell (daughter of Wiley Augustus "Gus" Smith and Ola Lee Wright) was born on 20 Feb 1920 in Texas; died on 23 Nov 1986 in Sabine County, Texas; was buried in Rosevine Cemetery, Rosevine, Sabine County, Texas. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]