Maxine Lloyd (Mooney) Clark (1914 - 1967)

Born 21 Jan 1914 in Columbus, OH

Ancestors

Wife of Earl William Clark — married 2 Nov 1935 in Columbus, OH

Descendants

Died 11 May 1967 at age 53 in Edmonds, WA

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Biography

Ohio, County Marriages, 1789-1997

Name: Earl Clark

Event Type: Marriage

Event Date: 02 Nov 1935

Event Place: Jefferson, Ohio, United States

Age: 24

Birth Year (Estimated): 1911

Father's Name: William W. Clark

Mother's Name: Edna Sheets

Spouse's Name: Maxine Mooney

Spouse's Age: 21

Spouse's Birth Year (Estimated): 1914

Spouse's Father's Name: John F. Mooney

Spouse's Mother's Name: Verna Pressley^[1]

Mother of four children. Grew up in Columbus, OH; attended Ohio State University; married Earl W. Clark on 2 Nov 1935. Thereafter they lived in Columbus; Follansbee, WV; Girard, OH; Buckhannon, WV; and Deshler, OH. In 1946, she and her family (husband and 3 boys) moved from Ohio to Port Angeles, WA, where a daughter was born, then to Edmonds, WA, where she died of bone cancer after a nearly three-year illness.

Mackey was always involved in civic affairs. In Port Angeles, she was an organizer and early president of the YMCA Auxiliary. In Edmonds, she was a member of the Library Board for seven years, a charter member of the Stevens Memorial Hospital Auxiliary, a Cub Scout den mother and Camp Fire Girls leader. She was also a member of the Edmonds Music and Arts Club; Analia Chapter OES, and a life-long Methodist.

From Earl Clark: "One night [Johnny Dankworth] invited me to go to a Luther League party, which didn't sound very promising to me, on which he said he would fix me up with a cute blind date. . . [T]he blind date was a high school senior named Maxine Mooney (I was a college sophomore by then). I thought she was a very pleasant girl, and I remembered her a few months later when my date for a fraternity dance fell ill, so I called the Mooney girl. That same morning. She accepted, much to her mother's dismay ("Don't you realize someone stood him up and he's calling you at the last minute?"), and we hit it off right away. In fact, it wasn't too many months later that she was wearing my pin."

From Earl Clark: "She always looked back on her high school days with absolute revulsion. That was before I met her, but she said high school to her was a nightmare. She said she was a loner, a wallflower, the one that was always left behind. This is incredible to us now. In Girard, Buckhannon, Deshler, Port Angeles, Edmonds -- always she was in a close circle of friends, always there was laughter, camaraderie, enjoyment when Mackie was around. These are friendships that have not been dimmed by time or the expanse of miles.

"We were married in the depths of the depression, making $15 a week. It was one of those fortunate marriages. We never fell out of love. She knew the life ahead was not going to be an easy one, and it wasn't.

Sources

1. ↑ "Ohio, County Marriages, 1789-1997," index and images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/XZ3H-GQ4 : accessed 09 Aug 2014), Earl Clark and Maxine Mooney, 02 Nov 1935; citing Jefferson, Ohio, United States, reference p 351; FHL microfilm 2297233.

• Family records
• Personal recollection of Earl Clark, 14 May 1967