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- The Daily Inter Lake Friday, January 17, 1958
OBITUARIES ALBERT EDWARD CLARKE
Funeral services for Albert Edward Clarke, 83, were Wednesday at Waggener & Campbell Chapel, with the Rev. Frank B. Hillis officiating.
Burial was in Conrad Memorial Cemetery, with Elmer Howell, L. P. Blackmer, William O. Hansen, Harry Keith, Herman Kienas and Gust Schultz as honorary pallbearers. Active pallbearers were J. M. Small, Earl Weaver, Frank Logan, Henry Isch, Homer Huggins and Elmer Beeman.
Albert Edward Clarke was born July 10, 1874, in Suffolk, England. He spent his youth there and on Jan. 6, 1898, left England to come to this country.
He came to the Flathead and settled on a farm east of the Flathead river.
He engaged in farming there until moving to his present farm west of Kalispell, in the Smith Valley community, where he had made his home since.
In 1904 he married Anna L. Wendt and is now survived by his widow at the family home.
Mr. Clarke died Jan. 11 at his home west of Kalispell.
Besides his wife, Anna, he is survived by one daughter, Mrs. L. J. Blanchet of Columbia Falls; four sons, Edward A. Clarke of Kalispell, Harold H., Virgil E. and Orval C. Clarke, all of the Columbia Falls area; one brother and two sisters in England; 12 grandchildren; four great grandchildren; three cousins, Bertha Henderson of Big Sandy, and Eleanor Nunn and Eva Baumont, both of Victoria, B.C., Canada.
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1874 - 1958 (83 years)
