8EH.
Henrietta Ione Lilly was born
in Byron Center, Kent County, Michigan,
on Monday, June 23, 1902, and died
in Vulcan, Alberta, Canada,
on February 4, 1981.
Percy Martin Clark was born
in Knox, North Dakota, U.S.A.,
in 1892, and died
in Vulcan
on July 29, 1981.
She is the daughter of Grove
and Alma
(Gilbert) Lilly.
They had four children:
 |
Clark: Percy, Eileen, and Etta (Lilly)
1923-4 |
Henrietta and Percy's granddaughter, Susan Clark, wrote [2002]:
I remember my
grandparents in Vulcan from visits when I was a childwe sometimes went to
Vulcan for Christmas and other family events or just for the weekendmy
grandparents had moved into town by the time I was visiting.
Aunty Ruth and Uncle Benny lived on the family farm at that point so I remember
visiting them on their farm, Dad and Ruth's sister, Aunty Eileen and
Uncle Ivan Haga, on their farm, and then gramma and grampa in town (Vulcan) at
their home. My parents have the beautiful old diningroom table and chairs
(mahogany, I think) that used to be in my grandparent's home in Vulcan.
It's a huge old carved table with many leaves, and the chairs used to have
leather seats I think, but had to be redone. I do remember the
house in town had kind of a sunroom on the front with old wicker chairs in it,
and you went up this little narrow staircase to get to a bedroom on the second
floor. I remember my grandmother (Henrietta) having a great sense of humor.
I don't know what name she went by since I just called her gramma.
Sources:
- Correspondence with Ruth (Clark) Dann; March 2002
- Correspondence with Susan Clark; June 2002