Holyoke, Mass

Mrs. Clark Has 85th Birthday

by Laurel | February 18th, 2007

[Adapted from the Berkshire Eagle, 17 February 1943.]

Hinsdale.—Mrs. Ella Clark of Main Street received friends and relatives at ther home Sunday in observance of her 85th birthday. She received flowers and a shower of cards. Mrs. Clark was born in Holyoke Feb. 14, 1858. She came to Hinsdale in 1893 with her husband, Wesley Clark, who died in 1920. Mrs. Clark has a daughter-in-law, Mrs. Sydney Scott of Dalton and two grandchildren, Wesley Clark of Hinsdale and Mrs. Harold Richmond of Dalton.

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