St Landry-Acadia County Louisiana Archives Obituaries.....Clark, Irma nee Chachere - November 5, 1908
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source: The Opelousas Courier (Opelousas, La.) 1852-1910, November 07, 1908, Image 1

DEATH OF MRS. B. E. CLARK

Died at the family residence at Branch, La., on Thursday, Nov. 5th, at 8 a. 
m., Irma Chachere, wife of Dr. B. E. Clark, aged seventy-six years, one 
month and fourteen days.

Mrs. Clark was an every-day Christian. The beautifying influences of a pure 
religion were spread over a life and character as spotless and charming as 
was ever possessed by any of the noble women who have lived and died during 
the ages that are gone. As such a life was a blessing and benefaction to all 
within the sphere of its influence, so is the death of such a one a public 
misfortune, as well as an irreparable loss to the home circle made desolate 
by her departure. It is difficult to pay a fitting tribute to the memory of 
so noble a woman - one whose everyday life was embellished by the most 
charming and lovable attributes of her sex. A perfect lady at all times - 
under all circumstances, she seemed born to inspire the love and respect of 
all who were so fortunate as to be acquainted with her. No one was more 
willing to aid the suffering, cheer the depsonding, sustain the weak, and to 
throw over the frailties of our race the mantle of Christian charity, and 
when sickness and death came to her, as it comes to all, neighbors and 
friends vied with each other in acts of loving kindness and tender 
solicitude, and many were the willing hands and hearts ready to assist him 
upon whom rested the heavy responsibility to fight back the ravages of 
disease - to avert the inevitable - and in whom were united the devotion of 
a husband, the untiring skill and watchful care of the conscientious, 
painstaking physician, but love and skill were equally of no avail. The 
great destroyer had placed his signet on her brow, and today hundreds who 
loved her living, mourn her dead.

In the presence of such a sorrow, how cold and impotent are words, and how 
doubly deep would be the grief over the grave did not the rainbow of 
Christian hope spain the dark gulf between time and eternity, and such pure, 
bright lives inspire the belief that there is a better world beyond, where, 
free from the corroding cares of earth, the good and true are re-united 
"asfter life's fitful fever."

The Courier extends sincere condolences to the grief-stricken husband and 
relatives in their hour of sad bereavement.


Additional Comments:
NOTE: Irma Chachere Clark was the daughter of Beaurepaire Prospere Chachere 
and Eugenie Lavernge. She was born 20 Sept. 1832. Irma Chachere married 
widower Dr. Bennett E. Clark 6 May 1878 (Opel Ct. Hse.) Dr. Clark had been 
previously married to Delia Andrus, mother of his two children.



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