Verna “Joanne” Clark, 84, of Chandlerville, Illinois, passed away on April 11, 2019, at the Jacksonville Skilled Nursing and Rehabilitation Center in Jacksonville, Illinois.
She was born December 5, 1934 in Cass County, Illinois, the daughter of Leonard and Beulah (Atterberry) Milstead. She married J.C. Clark on May 28, 1957 in Tallula, Illinois, who preceded her in death on January 17, 2003.
Joanne was a 1952 graduate of Chandlerville High School. After graduating, she was employed for nine years at Well’s Lamont Glove Factory in Beardstown as a seamstress before it closed, for seventeen years she was employed in Havana at Atwood Vacuum and Dana Corporation as a machine operator and also sold Avon for seven years. She also baked and decorated cakes. She loved working in the yard and garden. Her pride and joy were her two cats they had adopted named Smoke and Lightning who lived to be fourteen and eighteen years old. She also liked watching the St. Louis Cardinals on T.V.
Joanne is survived by three brother-in-laws, Herschel (wife Roberta) Clark, Donald (wife Shirlee) Clark and Richard (wife Sharon) Clark; a special cousin, Hazel Edge and many nieces and nephews.
She was also preceded in death by her parents; a brother, Ira Edison Milstead and a sister in law, Silvia (husband Tom) Palmer.
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She was born December 5, 1934 in Cass County, Illinois, the daughter of Leonard and Beulah (Atterberry) Milstead. She married J.C. Clark on May 28, 1957 in Tallula, Illinois, who preceded her in death on January 17, 2003.
Joanne was a 1952 graduate of Chandlerville High School. After graduating, she was employed for nine years at Well’s Lamont Glove Factory in Beardstown as a seamstress before it closed, for seventeen years she was employed in Havana at Atwood Vacuum and Dana Corporation as a machine operator and also sold Avon for seven years. She also baked and decorated cakes. She loved working in the yard and garden. Her pride and joy were her two cats they had adopted named Smoke and Lightning who lived to be fourteen and eighteen years old. She also liked watching the St. Louis Cardinals on T.V.
Joanne is survived by three brother-in-laws, Herschel (wife Roberta) Clark, Donald (wife Shirlee) Clark and Richard (wife Sharon) Clark; a special cousin, Hazel Edge and many nieces and nephews.
She was also preceded in death by her parents; a brother, Ira Edison Milstead and a sister in law, Silvia (husband Tom) Palmer.
Lintner-Hurley Funeral Home
Verna “Joanne” Clark, 84, of Chandlerville, Illinois, passed away on April 11, 2019, at the Jacksonville Skilled Nursing and Rehabilitation Center in Jacksonville, Illinois.
She was born December 5, 1934 in Cass County, Illinois, the daughter of Leonard and Beulah (Atterberry) Milstead. She married J.C. Clark on May 28, 1957 in Tallula, Illinois, who preceded her in death on January 17, 2003.
Joanne was a 1952 graduate of Chandlerville High School. After graduating, she was employed for nine years at Well’s Lamont Glove Factory in Beardstown as a seamstress before it closed, for seventeen years she was employed in Havana at Atwood Vacuum and Dana Corporation as a machine operator and also sold Avon for seven years. She also baked and decorated cakes. She loved working in the yard and garden. Her pride and joy were her two cats they had adopted named Smoke and Lightning who lived to be fourteen and eighteen years old. She also liked watching the St. Louis Cardinals on T.V.
Joanne is survived by three brother-in-laws, Herschel (wife Roberta) Clark, Donald (wife Shirlee) Clark and Richard (wife Sharon) Clark; a special cousin, Hazel Edge and many nieces and nephews.
She was also preceded in death by her parents; a brother, Ira Edison Milstead and a sister in law, Silvia (husband Tom) Palmer.
Lintner-Hurley Funeral Home
She was born December 5, 1934 in Cass County, Illinois, the daughter of Leonard and Beulah (Atterberry) Milstead. She married J.C. Clark on May 28, 1957 in Tallula, Illinois, who preceded her in death on January 17, 2003.
Joanne was a 1952 graduate of Chandlerville High School. After graduating, she was employed for nine years at Well’s Lamont Glove Factory in Beardstown as a seamstress before it closed, for seventeen years she was employed in Havana at Atwood Vacuum and Dana Corporation as a machine operator and also sold Avon for seven years. She also baked and decorated cakes. She loved working in the yard and garden. Her pride and joy were her two cats they had adopted named Smoke and Lightning who lived to be fourteen and eighteen years old. She also liked watching the St. Louis Cardinals on T.V.
Joanne is survived by three brother-in-laws, Herschel (wife Roberta) Clark, Donald (wife Shirlee) Clark and Richard (wife Sharon) Clark; a special cousin, Hazel Edge and many nieces and nephews.
She was also preceded in death by her parents; a brother, Ira Edison Milstead and a sister in law, Silvia (husband Tom) Palmer.
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