Harriette Pernell

Harriette June Shelaugh (Clark) Pernell passed away on January 23, 2011 in Phoenix, Arizona at the age of 95. Born in Bisbee, Arizona on June 15, 1915, she was the youngest child of Harry Allen Clark and Emma Kathern Marie Schroeder. Harriette’s father moved his family to Bisbee from Minnesota in 1910 after having received a job offer from Colonel John C. Greenway, General Manager of the Calumet & Arizona Mining Company (C&A). Mr. Clark’s initial position at the company’s Junction Mine in Bisbee was that of Master Mechanic. By 1925, he succeeded Colonel Greenway as General Manager of the company’s Bisbee-Douglas operations. Mr. Clark continued in a leadership position when the C&A merged with Phelps Dodge in 1931. Having graduated from Douglas High School in 1933, Harriette followed her two sisters and two of her brothers to the University of Arizona in Tucson. There she was affiliated with Kappa Alpha Theta fraternity. In 1936, she married Carroll Pernell of Bisbee. Their only child, Harry Clark Pernell, was born to them in Douglas in 1938. During World War II, the Pernell family lived in Baltimore, Maryland as Mr. Pernell was employed by the U.S. Public Health Service in Washington D.C. Following the war, the Pernell’s moved to Whittier, California and then removed to the San Diego area in 1957. There, Harriette was employed by the San Diego Police Department for over twenty years. Following her retirement, in the late 1970’s, she moved to Phoenix to be closer to her son and his family. During 1991, Harriette again relocated, this time to Douglas in order to assist her sister, Lillian, who was then in her ninety-first year. Following Lillian’s passing in 1999, Harriette returned to Phoenix. Harriette is preceded in death by her parents, her brothers, Jerome Adolph Clark, D.D. “Bud” Clark and George Douglas Clark, as well as by her sisters, Charlotte Amelia Scott and Lillian Ray Vinson. She is survived by her son, Harry and his wife, Linda, granddaughters, Amy Clark Cavers and Sally Lea Pernell, and great-grandsons, Cooper and Clark Cavers. Harriette is released and at home with her family. She will be greatly missed. There are no services planned at Harriette’s request.