Dorothy Lorene Clark

Memorials may be given to the Siteman Cancer Center-St. Peters, Missouri. CLARK, Dorothy L., mother to Nancy L. Bridges and grandmother to Sarah E. Bridges of St. Louis, passed away at her daughter’s home on July 26th following a brief period of declining health. She resided at the Parkside Meadows Retirement Community in St. Charles. In addition to Nancy and Sarah Bridges she is survived by step-children Tom Clark of Los Alamos New Mexico, Ed Clark of Gray Louisiana, Nancy Howard of Arlington Washington and six step-grandchildren. Born Dorothy L. Kendall September 7, 1915, at Kiowa, Kansas, she attended the University of Kansas at Lawrence, until the depression and WWII intervened. A government inspector at California aircraft plants during WWII and subsequent work with experimental explosives and nuclear detonators at the Los Alamos Laboratories completed a career from which she retired in 1970. Dorothy’s husband, John Edward Ashford, preceded her in death in 1961. Her son Eddie passed away in 1972 at Salt Lake City. In 1967 she remarried to Ralph Clark of Bonham, Texas, with whom she shared nearly thirty years at homes in Los Alamos New Mexico, Hesperus, Colorado, Aztec, New Mexico and Yuma Arizona, until Ralph’s death in 1997. Traveling extensively, boating, fishing and water skiing made for an active and interesting retirement. She moved to St. Charles in 2005 to be close to her family, but her independence never wavered. Dorothy will be remembered in a memorial reunion of family and friends Sunday, July 30th at her daughter’s home in St. Louis. Her remains will be interred at Farmington, New Mexico and a memorial service will be held in September at the gravesite.