Date of birth: 10 Mar 1890 Johnson County, Indiana
Date of death: 11 Jan 1962 Greencastle, Putnam County, Indiana
Source: Greencastle Daily Banner, Greencastle, Putnam County, Indiana, January 11, 1962
CLARK CALLED BY DEATH
Sylvester (Ben) Clark, 71, who
resided at 1002 Avenue E, died at the
Putnam County Hospital at 4:55 Thursday
morning where he had been admitted Wed-
nesday.
Survivors are the wife, Mattie; two
son, Kenneth of Franklin and Lawrence,
Indianapolis; one daughter, Mrs. Florene
Jones, Indianapolis; two sisters, Mattie
Gullette, Peoria, Ill., and Flossie Owens,
Edinburg; two step-sons Donald and Thomas
Goldsby, Indianapolis; one-step daughter,
Mrs. Linda Bell, Indianapolis, and six
grandchildren.
Last rites will be held Saturday
at 2 p.m. from the Whitaker Funeral Home
in Green-castle. Rev. Kyle Miller will
officiate. Burial will be in Greenlawn
Cemetery in Franklin.
Friends may call at the funeral home
after 7 this evening.
Source: Franklin Evening Star, Franklin, Johnson County, Indiana, January 12, 1962
Sylvester Clark Rites Announced
Funeral services wll be conducted for
Sylvester Clark, of Greencastle, father of
Kenneth Clark of Amity, Saturday after-
noon at 2 o'clock in the Whitaker Funeral
Home in that city.
Burial will be made in Greenlawn cemetery
here.
Friends may call at the funeral home at
any time and are invited to attend the rites.
During the past eight years, Mr. Clark
had suffered three heart attackes and at 9
o'clock Wednesday night he suffered a stroke
and was taken to the Putnam County Hospital
at Greencastle where he died at 4:50 o'clock
Thursday morning.
Born Near Nineveh
Mr. Clark was born near Nineveh on Feb.
10, 1898, and his parents were the late Charles
Henry and Catherine Coy Clark.
He had spent most of his life in Indian-
apolis where he was supervisor of the Columbia
Conserve Company for 22 years.
He was married twice and his first wife
was Lillie Mitchell and three children were
born to them. She died about 1935, and he
then married Mattie Goldsby.
She survives with two sons and a daughter,
Mr. Clark, of Amity; Lawrence Clark and
Mrs. Florence Jones, both of Indianapolis.
Others remaining are six grandchildren,
and two sisters, Mrs. Flossie Owens, of
Edinburg; and Mrs. Mattie Gellette, of Peoria,
Ill.
Mr. Clark was a member of a Christian
Church at Greencastle.
Submitted by Mark E. Wirey
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