Obituary of Rosamond Clark

Rosamond Clark Rosamond Clark (nee Bailey) of New Liskeard died peacefully at Northdale Manor on November 18, 2009, at the age of 91. Born in Toronto, she graduated with a biology degree from the University of Toronto in the days when women were discouraged from studying science. She worked for Bell Telephone and then as a high school Science and Phys Ed teacher before marrying Jack Clark and moving north to raise a family. She strongly supported his often difficult business decisions, including to strike out on his own when his father's former company, Hill Clark Francis, decided to leave New Liskeard in the 1960s. An avid canoeist and swimmer who had worked as a camp counsellor in the Muskokas and Georgian Bay, she gave her family many wonderful summers at Twin Lakes, full of swimming, boating, picnics, berry-picking, and botany walks, as well as evenings playing cards, board games, and singing Broadway musicals to her accompaniment on the old pump organ at the cottage. Her creativity, imagination, and sewing expertise produced beautiful costumes and floats for both the Twin Lakes Regatta and the New Liskeard Fall Fair parade over the years. She sang in the United Church choir, taught swim therapy for the Arthritis Society, and served on the Temiskaming school board for some years, but her family life was everything to her. She loved sewing, knitting, baking, playing the piano, bridge, her "X" group of women friends, and above all, reading and gardening, retaining to the end her passion for books on the relation between science and religion. Predeceased by her husband Jack, daughter Evelyn, daughter-in-law Janice, and three siblings, she will be lovingly remembered by her son Doug, daughters Lorrie (Don Kjelmyr) and Jackie, son-in-law Marvyn Morrison of Temagami, and grandchildren Caitlin Morrison and Ben, Dan, and Sophia Clark, as well as numerous nephews and nieces in Ontario and the U.S. The Clark family warmly thank the staff at Northdale Manor for their cheerful, professional care and compassion for Mrs. Clark during her two years there. Special thanks beyond words to Brenda Manners and Terry Christo. A private family commemoration of Mrs. Clark's life was held at the Clark family home on November 22. Any donations in her memory could be made to Northdale Manor, St. Andrew's Presbyterian Church, or the Salvation Army, all in New Liskeard.