Ionia County MI Archives Obituaries.....Clark, Harry  October 12, 1941
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Belding Banner-News  Thurs. October 16, 1941

Death Takes Largest Man In Community

Death removed a familiar figure to the Smyrna and Belding section of the state, 
when on Sunday, Harry Clark, long time Smyrna resident passed away at the 
hospital in Ionia at the age of 69 years.

Mr.Clark was one of the largest, if not the largest, men in tis section of the 
state, weighing somewhat better than 300 pounds at the time of his death and 
having at one time weighed in the neighborhood of 425 pounds, according to his 
own statement given at one time to a reporter of the Banner-News. It took a 
special built, large casket to carry his body and eight men, all neighbors and 
friends of the deceased, were called to act as bearers at his funeral.The 
bearers were Earl and Clair Norton, Frank Gray, Earl Goodrich, Fred Dumon, 
Hubert Reeves, Harold Gardner and Frank Richmond.

Funeral services were held at the Fitzjohn funeral home Tuesday afternoon at 2 
o'clock with Rev.H.S. Ellis officiating and burial was in the Smyrna cemetery.


Surviving are the  widow,Ila, of Smyrna; a son, Leland, of Nashville; a brother, 
Glen, of Portland, Ore., and two sisters, Mrs.Harry Beach of Cedar Springs and 
MRs.Elizabeth Groat of Daytona Beach,Fla.

Mr.Clark followed the business of breaking and training horses for many years 
and was called to take care of and conquer fractious horses by their owners 
living a long distance away who had heard of his ability and skill in handling 
horses.For many years he refuse to ride in or own an automobile and struck to 
his love for horses but with the passing of many horses from the farm and their 
places being taken by tractors an cars, he finally gave up training and and 
secured an automobile for his own us. He was also a shearer of sheep who was in 
great demand during the shearing season.

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Smyrna Cem.,
Ionia Co.,MI

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