(1880-October 12, 1936)

Miss Marion G. Clark of Montclair, N.J. died in Montclair Sanitarium Monday after an illness of several months. Due to ill health she retired from her position as supervisor of upper elementary and junior high schools of Montclair last April.

Miss Clark was born in Norwood, daughter of Mr. And Mrs. George F. Clark and was educated in the Norwood grade and high school and the Potsdam Normal school, graduating from the Normal in June 1900. She was one of the outstanding members of her class and following graduation taught in Malone and in 1903 began teaching in the schools of Nutley, N.J.. She later taught in Summit N.J., in the history department of the Newark Normal school, going from there to Cleveland Heights, O., as director of elementary education. She returned to New Jersey as head of the department of history of the Glassboro State Normal School and went to Montclair twelve years ago.

In addition to her position in the Montclair school system, Miss Clark was an instructor in history at Teachers College, Columbia University. She was the author of several books on history for elementary grades, including "The First 300 Years in America" and "Westward to the Pacific" and collaborated with other educational writers in history. She was a member of the National Education Association and of several teachers’ organizations.

Frank G. Pickell, superintendent of schools in Montclair says: "Miss Clark’s passing is a great loss to the community. She was a fine teacher and a capable administrator. Those who associated with her benefited by contact with her fine standards, and gained through her understanding of the problems of her profession".

Miss Clark was a woman or rare culture. Genial by nature she always looked on the bright side of life and the world was happier and better for her having lived in it. Devoted to her work, her family, her friends, she accomplished much and all for the good.

She is survived by two sisters, Mrs. William C. Davis of Haddon Heights, N.J., Mrs. A. P. Terhune of High Bridge and several nieces and nephews. Private funeral services were held Wednesday, Rev. William A. Leath, pastor of the Union Congregational church officiating. Cremation was made at Linden, N.J. and ashes will be interred in the Clark family plot in the cemetery in Norwood.

(From the Friday, October 16, 1936 edition of the Potsdam Herald-Recorder, page four. Courtesy of the Northern New York Library Network @ news.nnyln.net).

(Miss Clark’s ashes are buried at Riverside Cemetery, Norwood).