Frances Rivers Clark

Frances Rivers Clark, age 93, died on July 26, 2011 in Little Rock, Ark. Her services will be held on Saturday, July 30, 2011 at Wright and Ferguson Funeral Home, 1161 Highland Colony Parkway, Ridgeland, Miss. Visitation will be held from 1-2:30 p.m., immediately followed by a service in the chapel and graveside at the on-site cemetery. Mrs. Clark was a long time resident of Jackson and a native of Pocahontas, Miss. She graduated from Central High School in Jackson in 1935. She attended Belhaven College and later was employed doing secretarial work for several different governmental agencies. She married G.C. Clark Jr. in December, 1939 at Galloway Memorial United Methodist Church. She was a homemaker and the mother of two children. Frances was a member of Galloway Memorial United Methodist Church, the Ben Fatheree Sunday School Class, UMW, and a former Sunday School teacher. She was active in the Colonial Country Club, Mecca Bridge Luncheon Club, Le Mercredi Bridge Luncheon Club, Pierian Federated Club, La Sertoma Civic Luncheon Club and a former volunteer at Magnolia Speech School. Frances was a devoted daughter, wife, mother and grandmother. Her happiest moments were visiting with her children and grandchildren and traveling with her husband. She also loved spending time with her sisters, Booka Manning and Mary Elizabeth Brown, at family gatherings. Mrs. Clark spent all of her married life in Jackson, except a short time with her husband in Washington, DC, Newport, R.I., and New York City, N.Y. before he went overseas during WWII. He was aboard the aircraft carrier USS Bennington in the battles of Iwo Jima and Okinawa. She was preceded in death by her husband of 69 years G.C. Clark Jr., her parents A. Howard Rivers and Mary Baker Rivers, and two sisters, Mary Elizabeth Brown (Gordon) and Beulah Manning of Jackson. Her survivors include daughter, Carol Dyson (David) of Little Rock, Ark.; son, Charles C. Clark (Ginger) of Birmingham, Ala.; grandchildren, James Colin Rogers (Karin) of Asheville, N.C., Ronald Clark Dyson of Warren, Ark., Lee Dicks Clark (Matt Pilcher) of Seattle, Wash., Ginger Ann Clark Hughes (Robert) of Atlanta, Ga. and Charles C. Clark Jr. of Birmingham, Ala.; sisters-in-law, Dorothy Clark and Bonita Clark, both of Laurel, Miss; and brother-in-law, Roy Manning of Jackson, Miss. and a number of nieces and nephews. The family would like to thank the staff at The Orchard in Ridgeland, Miss., where she lived from 2002 to 2010, for all of the love and care that was shown to Frances. They would also like to thank the staff at Chenal Heights Assisted Living in Little Rock, where she lived for the past year, and the Visiting Angels of Arkansas, especially the compassionate care of Janice Lee, Liz McPeak and Lena Harris. Memorials may be made to Galloway Memorial United Methodist Church, P.O. Box 1092, Jackson, Mississippi 39215 or to the G.C. Clark Jr. and Frances R. Clark Scholarship Fund, Millsaps College, Office of Development, 1701 North State Street, Jackson, Mississippi 39210. Online guestbook www.wrightferguson.com.