John Edgar Clarke
1922 - 2021
VETERAN
Early Life: John was born July 15, 1922, in Fort Atkinson, Wisconsin, to J. Edgar and Caroline Catherine Wilson Clarke. He grew up with his half-sister, Mary Bunita Markley, in Fort Atkinson, Wisconsin and Chicago, Illinois. After graduating from Hyde Park High in Chicago, he attended the University of Illinois at Champaign.
Life's Work | Service | Interests: While there, during his freshman year, World War II began and the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor. He enlisted in the United States Army in 1943, serving in Japan, arriving just after the war ended, in August, 1945. After the war, he finished his bachelor's degree in journalism at the University of Illinois, and began working as an account executive in a small advertising agency in Chicago. There he met Jeanne Lundberg, and married her July 15, 1948. They soon welcomed their oldest daughter, Karen, followed by another daughter, Susan, and a son, Matthew. In 1958, the family moved to Westport, Connecticut, where John worked in product marketing at General Electric corporate headquarters, and then in New York City for an advertising agency where he became a senior vice president. Following his work in New York City, he started his own company in Connecticut, where he marketed bath products, garden products, and where he directed TV productions for PBS and his own independent film. He also wrote a novel. John was gifted at creative ideas, and rose from a small town in Wisconsin to the very peak of business in one of the most competitive environments on earth, New York City advertising. He was very personable, and engaged easily with other people, often cracking a joke or making a funny comment that would put people at ease. John Edgar Clarke, son, brother, husband, father, grandfather, and great-grandfather, passed away peacefully January 13, 2021, at the Orem Rehabilitation and Nursing Center in Orem, Utah. He was 98.
Family Message: "Dad, you brightened our world with your colorful personality and your sense of humor. Thank you for your ever-present joie de vivre. Thank you for the legacy of creativity you have left behind. You will be greatly missed by your family and friends, and will be thought of often until we meet again."
Surviving Family: His children: Karen Clarke and Matthew Clarke; son-in-law, Wayne DeVincent; his grandchildren: Katherine (Dan) Moss, Adam (Brittany) DeVincent, Paul (Margy) DeVincent, Robert Stephen (Elyse) DeVincent, Kristen (Ryan) Clarke Kellems, David (Cindi) Clarke, Jennifer (Mauricio) Choque; 23 great-grandchildren, and other loving extended family and friends.
Preceded In Death By: His wife, Jeanne Lundberg Clarke; his parents; daughter, Susan DeVincent; granddaughters, Sarah Smith and Lindsay Hammond; and sister, Mary Markley.
Services: Private Celebration of Life
Interment: East Lawn Memorial Hills Cemetery
Arrangements & Obituary: © 2021 | Berg Mortuary
Bio compiled by: Annie Duckett Hundley
1922 - 2021
VETERAN
Early Life: John was born July 15, 1922, in Fort Atkinson, Wisconsin, to J. Edgar and Caroline Catherine Wilson Clarke. He grew up with his half-sister, Mary Bunita Markley, in Fort Atkinson, Wisconsin and Chicago, Illinois. After graduating from Hyde Park High in Chicago, he attended the University of Illinois at Champaign.
Life's Work | Service | Interests: While there, during his freshman year, World War II began and the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor. He enlisted in the United States Army in 1943, serving in Japan, arriving just after the war ended, in August, 1945. After the war, he finished his bachelor's degree in journalism at the University of Illinois, and began working as an account executive in a small advertising agency in Chicago. There he met Jeanne Lundberg, and married her July 15, 1948. They soon welcomed their oldest daughter, Karen, followed by another daughter, Susan, and a son, Matthew. In 1958, the family moved to Westport, Connecticut, where John worked in product marketing at General Electric corporate headquarters, and then in New York City for an advertising agency where he became a senior vice president. Following his work in New York City, he started his own company in Connecticut, where he marketed bath products, garden products, and where he directed TV productions for PBS and his own independent film. He also wrote a novel. John was gifted at creative ideas, and rose from a small town in Wisconsin to the very peak of business in one of the most competitive environments on earth, New York City advertising. He was very personable, and engaged easily with other people, often cracking a joke or making a funny comment that would put people at ease. John Edgar Clarke, son, brother, husband, father, grandfather, and great-grandfather, passed away peacefully January 13, 2021, at the Orem Rehabilitation and Nursing Center in Orem, Utah. He was 98.
Family Message: "Dad, you brightened our world with your colorful personality and your sense of humor. Thank you for your ever-present joie de vivre. Thank you for the legacy of creativity you have left behind. You will be greatly missed by your family and friends, and will be thought of often until we meet again."
Surviving Family: His children: Karen Clarke and Matthew Clarke; son-in-law, Wayne DeVincent; his grandchildren: Katherine (Dan) Moss, Adam (Brittany) DeVincent, Paul (Margy) DeVincent, Robert Stephen (Elyse) DeVincent, Kristen (Ryan) Clarke Kellems, David (Cindi) Clarke, Jennifer (Mauricio) Choque; 23 great-grandchildren, and other loving extended family and friends.
Preceded In Death By: His wife, Jeanne Lundberg Clarke; his parents; daughter, Susan DeVincent; granddaughters, Sarah Smith and Lindsay Hammond; and sister, Mary Markley.
Services: Private Celebration of Life
Interment: East Lawn Memorial Hills Cemetery
Arrangements & Obituary: © 2021 | Berg Mortuary
Bio compiled by: Annie Duckett Hundley
John Edgar Clarke
1922 - 2021
VETERAN
Early Life: John was born July 15, 1922, in Fort Atkinson, Wisconsin, to J. Edgar and Caroline Catherine Wilson Clarke. He grew up with his half-sister, Mary Bunita Markley, in Fort Atkinson, Wisconsin and Chicago, Illinois. After graduating from Hyde Park High in Chicago, he attended the University of Illinois at Champaign.
Life's Work | Service | Interests: While there, during his freshman year, World War II began and the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor. He enlisted in the United States Army in 1943, serving in Japan, arriving just after the war ended, in August, 1945. After the war, he finished his bachelor's degree in journalism at the University of Illinois, and began working as an account executive in a small advertising agency in Chicago. There he met Jeanne Lundberg, and married her July 15, 1948. They soon welcomed their oldest daughter, Karen, followed by another daughter, Susan, and a son, Matthew. In 1958, the family moved to Westport, Connecticut, where John worked in product marketing at General Electric corporate headquarters, and then in New York City for an advertising agency where he became a senior vice president. Following his work in New York City, he started his own company in Connecticut, where he marketed bath products, garden products, and where he directed TV productions for PBS and his own independent film. He also wrote a novel. John was gifted at creative ideas, and rose from a small town in Wisconsin to the very peak of business in one of the most competitive environments on earth, New York City advertising. He was very personable, and engaged easily with other people, often cracking a joke or making a funny comment that would put people at ease. John Edgar Clarke, son, brother, husband, father, grandfather, and great-grandfather, passed away peacefully January 13, 2021, at the Orem Rehabilitation and Nursing Center in Orem, Utah. He was 98.
Family Message: "Dad, you brightened our world with your colorful personality and your sense of humor. Thank you for your ever-present joie de vivre. Thank you for the legacy of creativity you have left behind. You will be greatly missed by your family and friends, and will be thought of often until we meet again."
Surviving Family: His children: Karen Clarke and Matthew Clarke; son-in-law, Wayne DeVincent; his grandchildren: Katherine (Dan) Moss, Adam (Brittany) DeVincent, Paul (Margy) DeVincent, Robert Stephen (Elyse) DeVincent, Kristen (Ryan) Clarke Kellems, David (Cindi) Clarke, Jennifer (Mauricio) Choque; 23 great-grandchildren, and other loving extended family and friends.
Preceded In Death By: His wife, Jeanne Lundberg Clarke; his parents; daughter, Susan DeVincent; granddaughters, Sarah Smith and Lindsay Hammond; and sister, Mary Markley.
Services: Private Celebration of Life
Interment: East Lawn Memorial Hills Cemetery
Arrangements & Obituary: © 2021 | Berg Mortuary
Bio compiled by: Annie Duckett Hundley
1922 - 2021
VETERAN
Early Life: John was born July 15, 1922, in Fort Atkinson, Wisconsin, to J. Edgar and Caroline Catherine Wilson Clarke. He grew up with his half-sister, Mary Bunita Markley, in Fort Atkinson, Wisconsin and Chicago, Illinois. After graduating from Hyde Park High in Chicago, he attended the University of Illinois at Champaign.
Life's Work | Service | Interests: While there, during his freshman year, World War II began and the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor. He enlisted in the United States Army in 1943, serving in Japan, arriving just after the war ended, in August, 1945. After the war, he finished his bachelor's degree in journalism at the University of Illinois, and began working as an account executive in a small advertising agency in Chicago. There he met Jeanne Lundberg, and married her July 15, 1948. They soon welcomed their oldest daughter, Karen, followed by another daughter, Susan, and a son, Matthew. In 1958, the family moved to Westport, Connecticut, where John worked in product marketing at General Electric corporate headquarters, and then in New York City for an advertising agency where he became a senior vice president. Following his work in New York City, he started his own company in Connecticut, where he marketed bath products, garden products, and where he directed TV productions for PBS and his own independent film. He also wrote a novel. John was gifted at creative ideas, and rose from a small town in Wisconsin to the very peak of business in one of the most competitive environments on earth, New York City advertising. He was very personable, and engaged easily with other people, often cracking a joke or making a funny comment that would put people at ease. John Edgar Clarke, son, brother, husband, father, grandfather, and great-grandfather, passed away peacefully January 13, 2021, at the Orem Rehabilitation and Nursing Center in Orem, Utah. He was 98.
Family Message: "Dad, you brightened our world with your colorful personality and your sense of humor. Thank you for your ever-present joie de vivre. Thank you for the legacy of creativity you have left behind. You will be greatly missed by your family and friends, and will be thought of often until we meet again."
Surviving Family: His children: Karen Clarke and Matthew Clarke; son-in-law, Wayne DeVincent; his grandchildren: Katherine (Dan) Moss, Adam (Brittany) DeVincent, Paul (Margy) DeVincent, Robert Stephen (Elyse) DeVincent, Kristen (Ryan) Clarke Kellems, David (Cindi) Clarke, Jennifer (Mauricio) Choque; 23 great-grandchildren, and other loving extended family and friends.
Preceded In Death By: His wife, Jeanne Lundberg Clarke; his parents; daughter, Susan DeVincent; granddaughters, Sarah Smith and Lindsay Hammond; and sister, Mary Markley.
Services: Private Celebration of Life
Interment: East Lawn Memorial Hills Cemetery
Arrangements & Obituary: © 2021 | Berg Mortuary
Bio compiled by: Annie Duckett Hundley
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