Biography of Gene Clark, St Francis County, AR *********************************************************** Submitted by: Paul V Isbell Date: 19 Nov 2008 Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm *********************************************************** When it became known in 1946 that a grocer from Little Rock and Pine Bluff was planning to open a super market, few expected it to be one of the most successful in Eastern Arkansas, in the seven years since it's opening. The founder, the late M. E. Clark, had convenient parking facilities in a well lighted facility. At age 20, Gene is probably the youngest manager of a super market of its size in the state and has been so since December, 1952. Gene was born at Madison, graduated from Pine Bluff High School, and later attended Draughon's Business College in Memphis. On Nov. 29, 1952, he married Miss Corinne Snyder, daughter of Louie and Ruth (Suddath) Snyder of Turner, Arkansas. Gene is a member of the First Methodist Church and their choir. SOURCE: HISTORY of ST. FRANCIS COUNTY, ARKANSAS, 1954 - Robert W. Chowning Copyright, with Permission: Weston McCollum Lewey, Publisher -Times Herald Publishing-Forrest City, Arkansas