Gloria A. Clark Obituary - Visitation & Funeral Information

Gloria A. Clark, 87, of Central City, died Sunday, March 3 at Litzenberg Memorial County Hospital. Funeral services are Wednesday, March 6 at 11 A.M. at St. Paul’s Lutheran Church in Central City with Pastor Kevin McReynolds officiating. Visitation will be Tuesday, March 5, 2013 from 5 to 7 P.M. at Wagner Funeral Home in Central City. Private family burial will take place in the Central City Cemetery. Gloria was born on April 15, 1925 at Bladen, Nebraska to John and Nettie (Morey) Boom. She was baptized into Christ and confirmed into the Christian faith on April 16, 1946. Gloria grew up and attended school in Bladen, graduating from Bladen Public School in 1942. She was united in marriage to Lawrence M. Clark on June 16, 1945 in Grand Island, NE. The couple lived in Central City and ran Clark’s Bakery after the death of Lawrence’s father. They retired in 1975. Gloria was an active member of St. Paul’s Lutheran Church in Central City. She was part-time help in the Tea Room at Country Designs, and enjoyed her time at the Senior Center with all her friends. Gloria’s love was her church, for baking, reading cookbooks, cookbooks, cookbooks, gardening, flowers, birds, and PEOPLE. She is survived by two sisters, Coralee Lautenschlager of Doniphan, NE; and Virginia Magruder of Omaha, NE, and nieces and nephews. She was preceded in death by her parents, her husband Lawrence Clark, a brother and sister-in-law, Aaron and Kathleen Boom, a sister, Phyllis Boom, two brothers-in-law, Norman Lautenschlager, and Thomas Magruder III, a niece, Ann Magruder Meiman, and a nephew, Lynn Lautenschlager. Memorials are suggested to St. Paul’s Lutheran Church or the Central City Senior Center, and condolences may be sent to the family at the funeral home website, www.wagnerfuneral.com.

Gloria A. Clark

April 15, 1929 - March 3, 2013