Margaret "Marge" Amelia Clark, died peacefully in her sleep at home on May 21, 2006. She was born November 14, 1915, in Tres Vias, near Oroville in Butte County, to Lawrence J. and Carrie Marie Grass. She had an older sister, Evelyn Louise. Tres Vias was a small community of families who worked for the Sacramento Northern Railroad.
In 1923 the family moved to Oakland where they bought a house on Bartlett St in a neighborhood of recently completed identical bungalows. Margaret grew up on Bartlett Street and graduated from high school at 16, during the early years of the Depression. Her enthusiasm for style and fashion began to emerge when she received her first paycheck as usherette at the Oakland Paramont Theater and ran out to buy a pair of red high heels. By 1942 she was working as a telephone operator for the F.M. Ball Company, a cannery in Oakland.
World War II drew many American men from their peacetime jobs. F.M. Ball provided food products for the overseas troops, and the work of the cannery supervisor, Bill Clark, was regarded as important to the war effort. Bill began to take his breaks upstairs in the telephone switchboard room, away from the noisy cannery operations below. The handsome young manager and the spritely, stylish Marge were soon a couple. They married in March 1942. They made their home in Oakland until 1946 when Spiegl Foods, a frozen food company in Salinas, offered Bill a job he couldn’t refuse. They moved to Salinas and by 1951 moved into their present home on Santa Ana Drive. Marge was still living in the home at the time of her death.
Marge and Bill traveled the world together. Their love for Mexico, beginning in the 1950s, led to building two homes on the Baja Peninsula near San Jose del Cabo. As recently as last year, they enjoyed a family vacation in their Mexican home, Vista Palmilla.
Marge and Bill also shared a love of golf and friends. They were members of the Monterey Peninsula Country Club since the early 1950s and were founding members of the Corral de Tierra Country Club.
Marge and Bill placed a very high value on their family. They had three children: Susan (Tom Cochrane) of Santa Rosa and Sea Ranch, Jane (Ken Dunbar) of Boise, Idaho, and West (Maggie) of Salinas.
She leaves five grandchildren, Cam Berlogar, Carrie Berlogar, Katie Uland, Sara Skinner and Whitney Clark. She also leaves two great-grandchildren, Arthur Uland and Alejandro de Ana Skinner.
Marge loved birds, flowers, music and dancing. Marge never lost her sense of style and fashion. She was known for sending beautiful cards and letters to her family and friends for their birthdays, anniversaries and simply to express caring and love. She loved and was loved by people of all generations.
She and Bill were the loves of each other’s lives. On their 60th anniversary, their son made a toast to “the couple whose children had never once heard them argue or show anger toward one another.” Her love and daily expressions of caring float over the lives of those of us she leaves behind. We will all miss her caring spirit.
Memorial services: Private family memorial services are planned..
Memorials: Central Coast Hospice Foundation, P.O. Box 1798, Monterey, CA 93940, or Visiting Nurse Association, P.O. Box 2480, Monterey, CA 93940.
In 1923 the family moved to Oakland where they bought a house on Bartlett St in a neighborhood of recently completed identical bungalows. Margaret grew up on Bartlett Street and graduated from high school at 16, during the early years of the Depression. Her enthusiasm for style and fashion began to emerge when she received her first paycheck as usherette at the Oakland Paramont Theater and ran out to buy a pair of red high heels. By 1942 she was working as a telephone operator for the F.M. Ball Company, a cannery in Oakland.
World War II drew many American men from their peacetime jobs. F.M. Ball provided food products for the overseas troops, and the work of the cannery supervisor, Bill Clark, was regarded as important to the war effort. Bill began to take his breaks upstairs in the telephone switchboard room, away from the noisy cannery operations below. The handsome young manager and the spritely, stylish Marge were soon a couple. They married in March 1942. They made their home in Oakland until 1946 when Spiegl Foods, a frozen food company in Salinas, offered Bill a job he couldn’t refuse. They moved to Salinas and by 1951 moved into their present home on Santa Ana Drive. Marge was still living in the home at the time of her death.
Marge and Bill traveled the world together. Their love for Mexico, beginning in the 1950s, led to building two homes on the Baja Peninsula near San Jose del Cabo. As recently as last year, they enjoyed a family vacation in their Mexican home, Vista Palmilla.
Marge and Bill also shared a love of golf and friends. They were members of the Monterey Peninsula Country Club since the early 1950s and were founding members of the Corral de Tierra Country Club.
Marge and Bill placed a very high value on their family. They had three children: Susan (Tom Cochrane) of Santa Rosa and Sea Ranch, Jane (Ken Dunbar) of Boise, Idaho, and West (Maggie) of Salinas.
She leaves five grandchildren, Cam Berlogar, Carrie Berlogar, Katie Uland, Sara Skinner and Whitney Clark. She also leaves two great-grandchildren, Arthur Uland and Alejandro de Ana Skinner.
Marge loved birds, flowers, music and dancing. Marge never lost her sense of style and fashion. She was known for sending beautiful cards and letters to her family and friends for their birthdays, anniversaries and simply to express caring and love. She loved and was loved by people of all generations.
She and Bill were the loves of each other’s lives. On their 60th anniversary, their son made a toast to “the couple whose children had never once heard them argue or show anger toward one another.” Her love and daily expressions of caring float over the lives of those of us she leaves behind. We will all miss her caring spirit.
Memorial services: Private family memorial services are planned..
Memorials: Central Coast Hospice Foundation, P.O. Box 1798, Monterey, CA 93940, or Visiting Nurse Association, P.O. Box 2480, Monterey, CA 93940.
Margaret "Marge" Amelia Clark, died peacefully in her sleep at home on May 21, 2006. She was born November 14, 1915, in Tres Vias, near Oroville in Butte County, to Lawrence J. and Carrie Marie Grass. She had an older sister, Evelyn Louise. Tres Vias was a small community of families who worked for the Sacramento Northern Railroad.
In 1923 the family moved to Oakland where they bought a house on Bartlett St in a neighborhood of recently completed identical bungalows. Margaret grew up on Bartlett Street and graduated from high school at 16, during the early years of the Depression. Her enthusiasm for style and fashion began to emerge when she received her first paycheck as usherette at the Oakland Paramont Theater and ran out to buy a pair of red high heels. By 1942 she was working as a telephone operator for the F.M. Ball Company, a cannery in Oakland.
World War II drew many American men from their peacetime jobs. F.M. Ball provided food products for the overseas troops, and the work of the cannery supervisor, Bill Clark, was regarded as important to the war effort. Bill began to take his breaks upstairs in the telephone switchboard room, away from the noisy cannery operations below. The handsome young manager and the spritely, stylish Marge were soon a couple. They married in March 1942. They made their home in Oakland until 1946 when Spiegl Foods, a frozen food company in Salinas, offered Bill a job he couldn’t refuse. They moved to Salinas and by 1951 moved into their present home on Santa Ana Drive. Marge was still living in the home at the time of her death.
Marge and Bill traveled the world together. Their love for Mexico, beginning in the 1950s, led to building two homes on the Baja Peninsula near San Jose del Cabo. As recently as last year, they enjoyed a family vacation in their Mexican home, Vista Palmilla.
Marge and Bill also shared a love of golf and friends. They were members of the Monterey Peninsula Country Club since the early 1950s and were founding members of the Corral de Tierra Country Club.
Marge and Bill placed a very high value on their family. They had three children: Susan (Tom Cochrane) of Santa Rosa and Sea Ranch, Jane (Ken Dunbar) of Boise, Idaho, and West (Maggie) of Salinas.
She leaves five grandchildren, Cam Berlogar, Carrie Berlogar, Katie Uland, Sara Skinner and Whitney Clark. She also leaves two great-grandchildren, Arthur Uland and Alejandro de Ana Skinner.
Marge loved birds, flowers, music and dancing. Marge never lost her sense of style and fashion. She was known for sending beautiful cards and letters to her family and friends for their birthdays, anniversaries and simply to express caring and love. She loved and was loved by people of all generations.
She and Bill were the loves of each other’s lives. On their 60th anniversary, their son made a toast to “the couple whose children had never once heard them argue or show anger toward one another.” Her love and daily expressions of caring float over the lives of those of us she leaves behind. We will all miss her caring spirit.
Memorial services: Private family memorial services are planned..
Memorials: Central Coast Hospice Foundation, P.O. Box 1798, Monterey, CA 93940, or Visiting Nurse Association, P.O. Box 2480, Monterey, CA 93940.
In 1923 the family moved to Oakland where they bought a house on Bartlett St in a neighborhood of recently completed identical bungalows. Margaret grew up on Bartlett Street and graduated from high school at 16, during the early years of the Depression. Her enthusiasm for style and fashion began to emerge when she received her first paycheck as usherette at the Oakland Paramont Theater and ran out to buy a pair of red high heels. By 1942 she was working as a telephone operator for the F.M. Ball Company, a cannery in Oakland.
World War II drew many American men from their peacetime jobs. F.M. Ball provided food products for the overseas troops, and the work of the cannery supervisor, Bill Clark, was regarded as important to the war effort. Bill began to take his breaks upstairs in the telephone switchboard room, away from the noisy cannery operations below. The handsome young manager and the spritely, stylish Marge were soon a couple. They married in March 1942. They made their home in Oakland until 1946 when Spiegl Foods, a frozen food company in Salinas, offered Bill a job he couldn’t refuse. They moved to Salinas and by 1951 moved into their present home on Santa Ana Drive. Marge was still living in the home at the time of her death.
Marge and Bill traveled the world together. Their love for Mexico, beginning in the 1950s, led to building two homes on the Baja Peninsula near San Jose del Cabo. As recently as last year, they enjoyed a family vacation in their Mexican home, Vista Palmilla.
Marge and Bill also shared a love of golf and friends. They were members of the Monterey Peninsula Country Club since the early 1950s and were founding members of the Corral de Tierra Country Club.
Marge and Bill placed a very high value on their family. They had three children: Susan (Tom Cochrane) of Santa Rosa and Sea Ranch, Jane (Ken Dunbar) of Boise, Idaho, and West (Maggie) of Salinas.
She leaves five grandchildren, Cam Berlogar, Carrie Berlogar, Katie Uland, Sara Skinner and Whitney Clark. She also leaves two great-grandchildren, Arthur Uland and Alejandro de Ana Skinner.
Marge loved birds, flowers, music and dancing. Marge never lost her sense of style and fashion. She was known for sending beautiful cards and letters to her family and friends for their birthdays, anniversaries and simply to express caring and love. She loved and was loved by people of all generations.
She and Bill were the loves of each other’s lives. On their 60th anniversary, their son made a toast to “the couple whose children had never once heard them argue or show anger toward one another.” Her love and daily expressions of caring float over the lives of those of us she leaves behind. We will all miss her caring spirit.
Memorial services: Private family memorial services are planned..
Memorials: Central Coast Hospice Foundation, P.O. Box 1798, Monterey, CA 93940, or Visiting Nurse Association, P.O. Box 2480, Monterey, CA 93940.
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