Mary Roberta Clarke 1915-1939  
Categories: Alfred, New York, Rev. A. Clyde Ehret Officiating, The Sabbath Recorder Obituary
"The Sabbath Recorder", Vol 127, No 18, p 308, Oct. 30, 1939.
  Mary Roberta Clarke was born February 1, 1915, and died September 16, 1939.
  She was the daughter of the late Ford Stillman and Agnes Kenyon Clarke.   She spent her live in Alfred until her graduation from college in 1935.   In 1937, she received her master's degree from Smith College, Northampton, Mass.   Since that time she had been employed as visiting teacher with the Essex County Juvenile Clinic in Newark, N. J.
  She was a girl of high ideals and an unusual fine mental ability.   She received honors in all of her school work from the first grade through to and including her master's degree.   She also had the faculty of making and keeping friends and had a host of them of all ages wherever she went.   She was a member of the First Alfred Church.
  After an illness of less than twenty-four hours and an emergency operation, she died by a cerebral thrombosis.   She was in Alfred on vacation at the time.
  Services were held in her home in Alfred conducted by her pastor, Rev. A. Clyde Ehret, assisted by Dean A. J. C. Bond.   Burial was in the Alfred Rural Cemetery.
  Thus ended a life of wonderful promise that had just begun.   Yet it is not ended.   She still lives - lives as a real influence in the minds and hearts of scores and scores of friends, and lives in the world beyond.     A. C. E.