OBIT: Mary J. (KELLY) CLARK, 2002, native of Huntingdon County, PA

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Mary J. Clark

  Mary Jane (Kelly) Clark, 87, a resident of William Penn Nursing 
Center, Lewistown, formerly of East Market Street, Mount Union, died at 
11:20 a.m. on Tuesday, April 2, 2002, at the nursing center.
  The funeral service was held April 5 at the Robert D. Heath Funeral 
Home, Mount Union, with Rev. Robert Davidson officiating. Interment was 
in the Mount Union Cemetery.
  Born on March 13, 1915, in Mount Union, she was the daughter of the 
late John Irvin and Minnie Mae (Carbaugh) Kelly. She was united in 
marriage to George M. Clark in 1946. Her husband preceded her in death 
October 1964.
  Mary is survived by her son, Dennis Kelly Clark of Lewistown, three 
grandchildren and two great-grandchildren.
  She was preceded in death by three brothers and two sisters: Clifton, 
Clair and Calvin Kelly, Stella Price and Olive Brock.
  She graduated from Mount Union High School, class of 1933.
  Mrs. Clark first worked for the Huntingdon County Board of 
Assistance, Huntingdon, starting in March 1934, but was laid off in 
1935 due to the WPA projects. She worked in the office of the Federal 
Bureau of Business Census in 1936; the Resettlement Administration, 
Huntingdon, a federal reforestation project encompassing several 
counties, including a project for Penn State University; the 
Pennsylvania State Employment Service (now BES), Huntingdon, where she 
assisted in setting up files for the first Social Security numbers 
assigned to Huntingdon County workers.
  She returned to the Office of Public Assistance (now DPW), 
Huntingdon, with total service of over 36 years. Mrs. Clark worked in 
all phases of the clerical department, with the exception of the .Food 
Stamps program, and as executive secretary to every executive director 
and the board of that office, except the Rev. Charles H. Stong and 
Daniel DiSimoni.
  For the last five years prior to her retirement, she did casework and 
interviewing as an income maintenance worker.
  She was a member of the First United Methodist Church, Mount Union; 
past president and secretary of the Berean Sunday School Class; member 
of the administrative board of the church; and a substitute teacher. 
She first started to teach Sunday school at age 16. She was a member of 
the United Methodist Women and the executive board, having served as 
secretary and served a number of years as secretary of program 
resources.
  Mrs. Clark was a member of the Mount Union Civic Club since 1941, 
chairing the program committee, ways and means committee and helping 
with various projects and other committee work. She also did volunteer 
work for the Mount Union Red Cross bloodmobile and Cancer Crusade fund 
drives.
  She was a former director of the Juniata Foundation for the Blind, 
Huntingdon Branch, serving on the Eye Care Committee, working in the 
Mount Union area; she was secretary of the board; was a substitute 
publicity chairman; and a member of the board of directors for the 
Lewistown Branch of the Juniata Foundation for the Blind.
  She delivered Meals on Wheels in Mount Union for one year, with help 
from her brother, Clifton. She also served on the reunion committee for 
her high school class.

The Valley Log, Orbisonia, Pa., April 10, 2002