Clark, Marie Mountain Ann Arbor, MI
Marie Mountain Clark, 93, was called to her eternal home by God on Thursday, October 2, 2008, surrounded in her earthly home by the love of her family. Marie was born on February 8, 1915, in a small farm house at West Liberty, Iowa. She spent her childhood in West Des Moines, Iowa, where her father established the Iowanola Dairy for the breeding of pure bred Guernsey cattle and the production and marketing of high butter fat Guernsey milk and other dairy products. She is a retired flute teacher and performer having served as Principal Flute in the Drake University-Des Moines Symphony Orchestra, the Ann Arbor Symphony and orchestras in the Boston, Massachusetts, area. She has performed professionally as a soloist and with Chamber Groups and has taught private students in Ann Arbor and Boston. In the 1945-46 she served as the Instructor of Flute in the University of Michigan School of Music and in the summer of 1946 was a student at the Tanglewood Music Festival. Marie is a graduate in Music from Drake University and completed Graduate Studies in Music at the University of Michigan. She is a former flute student of Georges Barrere and George Laurent. During her high school days she was both a National Champion and Iowa State champion in flute performance.Marie is a 70-year, Life Member of the Mu Phi Epsilon International Professional Music Fraternity and has been affiliated with the Ann Arbor Alumni Chapter since 1957. During the Second World War Marie completed U.S. Air Force pilot training with the Women's Air Force Service Pilots (WASP). Following graduation in February 1944 she was assigned as a pilot with the U.S. Air Force, accumulating about 1000 hours in military aircraft, including the PT-19, BT-13, AT-11 and AT-6 training aircraft, the P-39 and P-63 fighter aircraft and as a copilot in the B-17 and B-26 bombers. Her military service was at the Las Vegas (Nevada) Air Force Base where her duties included giving instrument flying instruction to male pilots, flying mock fighter attacks on the B-17 "Flying Fortress" and serving as an engineering test pilot for P-39 and P-63 fighter aircraft. She is a member of the Caterpillar Club, an organization of those military pilots who have made an emergency parachute jump from an aircraft. The WASP were the first women to serve as pilots for the US Air Force and were the pioneers that led the way for women to fly today in all the military services. In 2005 Marie published her World War II memoirs in the autobiography: Dear Mother and Daddy: World War II Letters Home from a WASP. On July 8, 1945, Marie was married in West Des Moines to John Alden Clark, who survives.
She was pre-deceased by her parents, Charles and Ethel Mountain, her three sons, Alan(1946), Merrill(1946) and Peter(1988) and is survived by her children, David (Souise) of Eden Prairie, MN, Eloise-Marie (Philip) McKenzie, MD, of Thief River Falls, MN, grandaughter Susan Marie Clark of Blaine, MN, grandson Charles John (Jean) Clark of Redmond, WA, great grandson, Curtis Hajek of Blaine, MN, and great grandaughter-to-be Claudia Marie Clark of Redmond, WA. She is also survived by her sister, Eloise Mountain Wright of Iowa City, IA, her niece Susan (Ray) Cutler of East Moline, IL, her nephew Charles (Graciela) Wright of Houston, TX, and her grand niece Rebecca Cutler of Rockford, IL.
**************************************************************************************
Marie Mountain Clark of the Women Air Force Service Pilots
Marie Mountain, of West Liberty Iowa, served with Women Air Force Service Pilots (WASP) and is noted as one of the the first female pilots to become initiated into the Caterpillar Club.
According to the Iowa Aviation Museum: "While studying music at Drake University in 1939, she joined the Civilian Pilot Training Program (CPTP), learned to fly at the Des Moines Flying Service, and taught navigation and meteorology in the military training courses at Dowling College."
"Prior to joining the WASPs in August 1943, she had logged 76 hours. When her instructor was demonstrating spins in a Fairchild PT-19, Marie's seat belt became unfastened and she was thrown from the cockpit. She was then inducted into the Caterpillar Club, a select group of pilots whose lives have been saved by parachutes." (Iowa Aviation Museum)
"Following graduation in February 1944 Marie was assigned as a pilot with the US Army Air Force, accumulating about 1000 hours in military aircraft, including the PT-19, BT-13, AT-11 and AT-6 training aircraft, the P-39 and P-63 fighter aircraft and as a copilot in the B-17 and B-26 bombers. Her military service was at the Las Vegas (Nevada) Air Force Base where her duties included giving instrument flying instruction to male pilots, flying mock fighter attacks on the B-17 "Flying Fortress" and serving as an engineering test pilot for P-39 and P-63 fighter aircraft." (Ann Arbor News).
After the war, Marie worked for the Des Moines Flying Service and married John Alden Clark, a former WW2 bomber pilot in 1945. The couple relocated to Ann Arbor Michigan. Mary and John were married for 63 years and had two sons and a daughter. (Ann Arbor News)
In 2005 Marie published her World War II memoirs in the autobiography: Dear Mother and Daddy: World War II Letters Home from a WASP.
Marie Mountain Clark passed away on October 2, 2008 in Ann Arbor Michigan at the age of 93. She lies in rest at the Resthaven Cemetery in Des Moines Iowa. Lest We Forget.
Original description sourced by: Iowa Aviation Museum and Ann Arbor News. Photo sourced by US Air Force and Final Flight.
Marie Mountain Clark, 93, was called to her eternal home by God on Thursday, October 2, 2008, surrounded in her earthly home by the love of her family. Marie was born on February 8, 1915, in a small farm house at West Liberty, Iowa. She spent her childhood in West Des Moines, Iowa, where her father established the Iowanola Dairy for the breeding of pure bred Guernsey cattle and the production and marketing of high butter fat Guernsey milk and other dairy products. She is a retired flute teacher and performer having served as Principal Flute in the Drake University-Des Moines Symphony Orchestra, the Ann Arbor Symphony and orchestras in the Boston, Massachusetts, area. She has performed professionally as a soloist and with Chamber Groups and has taught private students in Ann Arbor and Boston. In the 1945-46 she served as the Instructor of Flute in the University of Michigan School of Music and in the summer of 1946 was a student at the Tanglewood Music Festival. Marie is a graduate in Music from Drake University and completed Graduate Studies in Music at the University of Michigan. She is a former flute student of Georges Barrere and George Laurent. During her high school days she was both a National Champion and Iowa State champion in flute performance.Marie is a 70-year, Life Member of the Mu Phi Epsilon International Professional Music Fraternity and has been affiliated with the Ann Arbor Alumni Chapter since 1957. During the Second World War Marie completed U.S. Air Force pilot training with the Women's Air Force Service Pilots (WASP). Following graduation in February 1944 she was assigned as a pilot with the U.S. Air Force, accumulating about 1000 hours in military aircraft, including the PT-19, BT-13, AT-11 and AT-6 training aircraft, the P-39 and P-63 fighter aircraft and as a copilot in the B-17 and B-26 bombers. Her military service was at the Las Vegas (Nevada) Air Force Base where her duties included giving instrument flying instruction to male pilots, flying mock fighter attacks on the B-17 "Flying Fortress" and serving as an engineering test pilot for P-39 and P-63 fighter aircraft. She is a member of the Caterpillar Club, an organization of those military pilots who have made an emergency parachute jump from an aircraft. The WASP were the first women to serve as pilots for the US Air Force and were the pioneers that led the way for women to fly today in all the military services. In 2005 Marie published her World War II memoirs in the autobiography: Dear Mother and Daddy: World War II Letters Home from a WASP. On July 8, 1945, Marie was married in West Des Moines to John Alden Clark, who survives.
She was pre-deceased by her parents, Charles and Ethel Mountain, her three sons, Alan(1946), Merrill(1946) and Peter(1988) and is survived by her children, David (Souise) of Eden Prairie, MN, Eloise-Marie (Philip) McKenzie, MD, of Thief River Falls, MN, grandaughter Susan Marie Clark of Blaine, MN, grandson Charles John (Jean) Clark of Redmond, WA, great grandson, Curtis Hajek of Blaine, MN, and great grandaughter-to-be Claudia Marie Clark of Redmond, WA. She is also survived by her sister, Eloise Mountain Wright of Iowa City, IA, her niece Susan (Ray) Cutler of East Moline, IL, her nephew Charles (Graciela) Wright of Houston, TX, and her grand niece Rebecca Cutler of Rockford, IL.
**************************************************************************************
Marie Mountain Clark of the Women Air Force Service Pilots
Marie Mountain, of West Liberty Iowa, served with Women Air Force Service Pilots (WASP) and is noted as one of the the first female pilots to become initiated into the Caterpillar Club.
According to the Iowa Aviation Museum: "While studying music at Drake University in 1939, she joined the Civilian Pilot Training Program (CPTP), learned to fly at the Des Moines Flying Service, and taught navigation and meteorology in the military training courses at Dowling College."
"Prior to joining the WASPs in August 1943, she had logged 76 hours. When her instructor was demonstrating spins in a Fairchild PT-19, Marie's seat belt became unfastened and she was thrown from the cockpit. She was then inducted into the Caterpillar Club, a select group of pilots whose lives have been saved by parachutes." (Iowa Aviation Museum)
"Following graduation in February 1944 Marie was assigned as a pilot with the US Army Air Force, accumulating about 1000 hours in military aircraft, including the PT-19, BT-13, AT-11 and AT-6 training aircraft, the P-39 and P-63 fighter aircraft and as a copilot in the B-17 and B-26 bombers. Her military service was at the Las Vegas (Nevada) Air Force Base where her duties included giving instrument flying instruction to male pilots, flying mock fighter attacks on the B-17 "Flying Fortress" and serving as an engineering test pilot for P-39 and P-63 fighter aircraft." (Ann Arbor News).
After the war, Marie worked for the Des Moines Flying Service and married John Alden Clark, a former WW2 bomber pilot in 1945. The couple relocated to Ann Arbor Michigan. Mary and John were married for 63 years and had two sons and a daughter. (Ann Arbor News)
In 2005 Marie published her World War II memoirs in the autobiography: Dear Mother and Daddy: World War II Letters Home from a WASP.
Marie Mountain Clark passed away on October 2, 2008 in Ann Arbor Michigan at the age of 93. She lies in rest at the Resthaven Cemetery in Des Moines Iowa. Lest We Forget.
Original description sourced by: Iowa Aviation Museum and Ann Arbor News. Photo sourced by US Air Force and Final Flight.
Clark, Marie Mountain Ann Arbor, MI
Marie Mountain Clark, 93, was called to her eternal home by God on Thursday, October 2, 2008, surrounded in her earthly home by the love of her family. Marie was born on February 8, 1915, in a small farm house at West Liberty, Iowa. She spent her childhood in West Des Moines, Iowa, where her father established the Iowanola Dairy for the breeding of pure bred Guernsey cattle and the production and marketing of high butter fat Guernsey milk and other dairy products. She is a retired flute teacher and performer having served as Principal Flute in the Drake University-Des Moines Symphony Orchestra, the Ann Arbor Symphony and orchestras in the Boston, Massachusetts, area. She has performed professionally as a soloist and with Chamber Groups and has taught private students in Ann Arbor and Boston. In the 1945-46 she served as the Instructor of Flute in the University of Michigan School of Music and in the summer of 1946 was a student at the Tanglewood Music Festival. Marie is a graduate in Music from Drake University and completed Graduate Studies in Music at the University of Michigan. She is a former flute student of Georges Barrere and George Laurent. During her high school days she was both a National Champion and Iowa State champion in flute performance.Marie is a 70-year, Life Member of the Mu Phi Epsilon International Professional Music Fraternity and has been affiliated with the Ann Arbor Alumni Chapter since 1957. During the Second World War Marie completed U.S. Air Force pilot training with the Women's Air Force Service Pilots (WASP). Following graduation in February 1944 she was assigned as a pilot with the U.S. Air Force, accumulating about 1000 hours in military aircraft, including the PT-19, BT-13, AT-11 and AT-6 training aircraft, the P-39 and P-63 fighter aircraft and as a copilot in the B-17 and B-26 bombers. Her military service was at the Las Vegas (Nevada) Air Force Base where her duties included giving instrument flying instruction to male pilots, flying mock fighter attacks on the B-17 "Flying Fortress" and serving as an engineering test pilot for P-39 and P-63 fighter aircraft. She is a member of the Caterpillar Club, an organization of those military pilots who have made an emergency parachute jump from an aircraft. The WASP were the first women to serve as pilots for the US Air Force and were the pioneers that led the way for women to fly today in all the military services. In 2005 Marie published her World War II memoirs in the autobiography: Dear Mother and Daddy: World War II Letters Home from a WASP. On July 8, 1945, Marie was married in West Des Moines to John Alden Clark, who survives.
She was pre-deceased by her parents, Charles and Ethel Mountain, her three sons, Alan(1946), Merrill(1946) and Peter(1988) and is survived by her children, David (Souise) of Eden Prairie, MN, Eloise-Marie (Philip) McKenzie, MD, of Thief River Falls, MN, grandaughter Susan Marie Clark of Blaine, MN, grandson Charles John (Jean) Clark of Redmond, WA, great grandson, Curtis Hajek of Blaine, MN, and great grandaughter-to-be Claudia Marie Clark of Redmond, WA. She is also survived by her sister, Eloise Mountain Wright of Iowa City, IA, her niece Susan (Ray) Cutler of East Moline, IL, her nephew Charles (Graciela) Wright of Houston, TX, and her grand niece Rebecca Cutler of Rockford, IL.
**************************************************************************************
Marie Mountain Clark of the Women Air Force Service Pilots
Marie Mountain, of West Liberty Iowa, served with Women Air Force Service Pilots (WASP) and is noted as one of the the first female pilots to become initiated into the Caterpillar Club.
According to the Iowa Aviation Museum: "While studying music at Drake University in 1939, she joined the Civilian Pilot Training Program (CPTP), learned to fly at the Des Moines Flying Service, and taught navigation and meteorology in the military training courses at Dowling College."
"Prior to joining the WASPs in August 1943, she had logged 76 hours. When her instructor was demonstrating spins in a Fairchild PT-19, Marie's seat belt became unfastened and she was thrown from the cockpit. She was then inducted into the Caterpillar Club, a select group of pilots whose lives have been saved by parachutes." (Iowa Aviation Museum)
"Following graduation in February 1944 Marie was assigned as a pilot with the US Army Air Force, accumulating about 1000 hours in military aircraft, including the PT-19, BT-13, AT-11 and AT-6 training aircraft, the P-39 and P-63 fighter aircraft and as a copilot in the B-17 and B-26 bombers. Her military service was at the Las Vegas (Nevada) Air Force Base where her duties included giving instrument flying instruction to male pilots, flying mock fighter attacks on the B-17 "Flying Fortress" and serving as an engineering test pilot for P-39 and P-63 fighter aircraft." (Ann Arbor News).
After the war, Marie worked for the Des Moines Flying Service and married John Alden Clark, a former WW2 bomber pilot in 1945. The couple relocated to Ann Arbor Michigan. Mary and John were married for 63 years and had two sons and a daughter. (Ann Arbor News)
In 2005 Marie published her World War II memoirs in the autobiography: Dear Mother and Daddy: World War II Letters Home from a WASP.
Marie Mountain Clark passed away on October 2, 2008 in Ann Arbor Michigan at the age of 93. She lies in rest at the Resthaven Cemetery in Des Moines Iowa. Lest We Forget.
Original description sourced by: Iowa Aviation Museum and Ann Arbor News. Photo sourced by US Air Force and Final Flight.
Marie Mountain Clark, 93, was called to her eternal home by God on Thursday, October 2, 2008, surrounded in her earthly home by the love of her family. Marie was born on February 8, 1915, in a small farm house at West Liberty, Iowa. She spent her childhood in West Des Moines, Iowa, where her father established the Iowanola Dairy for the breeding of pure bred Guernsey cattle and the production and marketing of high butter fat Guernsey milk and other dairy products. She is a retired flute teacher and performer having served as Principal Flute in the Drake University-Des Moines Symphony Orchestra, the Ann Arbor Symphony and orchestras in the Boston, Massachusetts, area. She has performed professionally as a soloist and with Chamber Groups and has taught private students in Ann Arbor and Boston. In the 1945-46 she served as the Instructor of Flute in the University of Michigan School of Music and in the summer of 1946 was a student at the Tanglewood Music Festival. Marie is a graduate in Music from Drake University and completed Graduate Studies in Music at the University of Michigan. She is a former flute student of Georges Barrere and George Laurent. During her high school days she was both a National Champion and Iowa State champion in flute performance.Marie is a 70-year, Life Member of the Mu Phi Epsilon International Professional Music Fraternity and has been affiliated with the Ann Arbor Alumni Chapter since 1957. During the Second World War Marie completed U.S. Air Force pilot training with the Women's Air Force Service Pilots (WASP). Following graduation in February 1944 she was assigned as a pilot with the U.S. Air Force, accumulating about 1000 hours in military aircraft, including the PT-19, BT-13, AT-11 and AT-6 training aircraft, the P-39 and P-63 fighter aircraft and as a copilot in the B-17 and B-26 bombers. Her military service was at the Las Vegas (Nevada) Air Force Base where her duties included giving instrument flying instruction to male pilots, flying mock fighter attacks on the B-17 "Flying Fortress" and serving as an engineering test pilot for P-39 and P-63 fighter aircraft. She is a member of the Caterpillar Club, an organization of those military pilots who have made an emergency parachute jump from an aircraft. The WASP were the first women to serve as pilots for the US Air Force and were the pioneers that led the way for women to fly today in all the military services. In 2005 Marie published her World War II memoirs in the autobiography: Dear Mother and Daddy: World War II Letters Home from a WASP. On July 8, 1945, Marie was married in West Des Moines to John Alden Clark, who survives.
She was pre-deceased by her parents, Charles and Ethel Mountain, her three sons, Alan(1946), Merrill(1946) and Peter(1988) and is survived by her children, David (Souise) of Eden Prairie, MN, Eloise-Marie (Philip) McKenzie, MD, of Thief River Falls, MN, grandaughter Susan Marie Clark of Blaine, MN, grandson Charles John (Jean) Clark of Redmond, WA, great grandson, Curtis Hajek of Blaine, MN, and great grandaughter-to-be Claudia Marie Clark of Redmond, WA. She is also survived by her sister, Eloise Mountain Wright of Iowa City, IA, her niece Susan (Ray) Cutler of East Moline, IL, her nephew Charles (Graciela) Wright of Houston, TX, and her grand niece Rebecca Cutler of Rockford, IL.
**************************************************************************************
Marie Mountain Clark of the Women Air Force Service Pilots
Marie Mountain, of West Liberty Iowa, served with Women Air Force Service Pilots (WASP) and is noted as one of the the first female pilots to become initiated into the Caterpillar Club.
According to the Iowa Aviation Museum: "While studying music at Drake University in 1939, she joined the Civilian Pilot Training Program (CPTP), learned to fly at the Des Moines Flying Service, and taught navigation and meteorology in the military training courses at Dowling College."
"Prior to joining the WASPs in August 1943, she had logged 76 hours. When her instructor was demonstrating spins in a Fairchild PT-19, Marie's seat belt became unfastened and she was thrown from the cockpit. She was then inducted into the Caterpillar Club, a select group of pilots whose lives have been saved by parachutes." (Iowa Aviation Museum)
"Following graduation in February 1944 Marie was assigned as a pilot with the US Army Air Force, accumulating about 1000 hours in military aircraft, including the PT-19, BT-13, AT-11 and AT-6 training aircraft, the P-39 and P-63 fighter aircraft and as a copilot in the B-17 and B-26 bombers. Her military service was at the Las Vegas (Nevada) Air Force Base where her duties included giving instrument flying instruction to male pilots, flying mock fighter attacks on the B-17 "Flying Fortress" and serving as an engineering test pilot for P-39 and P-63 fighter aircraft." (Ann Arbor News).
After the war, Marie worked for the Des Moines Flying Service and married John Alden Clark, a former WW2 bomber pilot in 1945. The couple relocated to Ann Arbor Michigan. Mary and John were married for 63 years and had two sons and a daughter. (Ann Arbor News)
In 2005 Marie published her World War II memoirs in the autobiography: Dear Mother and Daddy: World War II Letters Home from a WASP.
Marie Mountain Clark passed away on October 2, 2008 in Ann Arbor Michigan at the age of 93. She lies in rest at the Resthaven Cemetery in Des Moines Iowa. Lest We Forget.
Original description sourced by: Iowa Aviation Museum and Ann Arbor News. Photo sourced by US Air Force and Final Flight.
Family Members
Sponsored by Ancestry
Advertisement
Advertisement
