DENISON
Elsie Jewel Clark, 78, went to be with our Lord in Heaven on December 4, 2010. Graveside services will be held at 2:00 PM on Friday, December 10, 2010 at Fairview Cemetery with the Rev. Steve Kretzer officiating. Family night will be Thursday from 6 to 7 PM at the funeral home.
Jewel, as her family and friends called her was born on June 21, 1932, in Eden, Texas to Roy and Willie Briggs. she has lived in Big Lake, Weatherford, Odessa, and Borger, Texas until moving to Denison in 1988. She married Thomas Lewis Clark in 1950 in Odessa, Texas.
She is survived by her daughter Linda Anne Chaney and her husband M.A.; four granddaughters, Shari Rene' Chaney and her husband Richard of San Angelo, TX., Jennifer Childs of Sherman, Marci Record of Howe, and Sonya Jones and husband Darrell; nine great-grandchildren, Christopher and Michael Chaney of San Angelo, Stephanie, Samantha and David Childs of Denison, Tyler and Conner Record of Howe, Kaitlyn and Thomas Jones of Denison; two great-great-grandchildren Braxton and Joshua; four sisters, Bessie, Lula Mae, Faye and Lousie; one brother, William; and numerous neices and nephews.
Family who passed before Jewel include her husband, Thomas Clark in 1991; her son, Tommy Dale Clark in 2001; her parents Roy and Willie Briggs; her sisters, Ruby, Blanche, Nadyne, Carolyn, Edith, Ila; and brother Alfred.
"Our mom and grandmother had a heart of gold and did so much for her family and others. She donated to various shelters in the Denison area, and when people from Katrina had taken shelter there she went and bought things to take to them."
The family would like to thank Dr. Garvin and the doctors, Nurses and the in hospital hospice of St. Paul in Dallas, Tx.
Her granddaughter Shari wrote the following:
Grandma, thank you for all that you gave our family.
The love and support you gave us is something that
will live with us and we will pass down to our own kids.
You suffered for many years and now you are at peace.
We know you're looking down on us now saying "please don't cry
I am in a lot better place and no longer in any pain.
I'm with the family that had passed before me and I know I
will see you all again when it's your time."
