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Carrie Johnson Clark
The Hugo Daily News February 3, 1950 – transcribed by Ron Henson

Mrs. Clark’s Rites To Be Held Today At Nazarene Church

Funeral services for Mrs. Carrie Johnson Clark will be held today at 2:30 p.m. at the Church of the Nazarene with Rev. L.E. Green officiating and interment in the Mount Olivet Cemetery. Coffey Funeral Home is in charge of all arrangements.

Pallbearers will be Elba German, J.W. Cleveland, Hovy Barnes, R.L. Griffin, Charles L. Griffin and Elbert Griffin, all nephews of the deceased.

Mrs. Clark, who is the only remaining charter member of the Church of the Nazarene, passed away on Friday morning at her home 505 East Clayton Street.

She was born on April 9, 1880, in Union City, Tennessee. She spent most of her early life in Corning, Arkansas, where, on her nineteenth birthday she was wed to E.M. Clark, retired Hugo taxi operator.

The moved to Clarksville, Texas, in 1901, where they operated a farm as they had at Corning. The Clarks moved to Hugo in 1909.

Mrs. Clark was a deaconess in the Church of the Nazarene and the affection of the church members was shown to Mr. and Mrs. Clark on April 9, 1949, when they presented the two with a pair of white wool blankets. The occasion was the golden wedding anniversary of the Clarks.

Mrs. Clark is survived by her husband and one brother, R.V. Johnson, Hugo; three sisters, Mrs. Ella Davis, Crescent City, Calif.; Mrs. E.L. Raines, Perryton, Texas, and Mrs. R.L. Griffin, Madill.

The News joins with her many friends in expressing condolence to the relatives of the deceased.