Clark Cameron Munroe

Clark C. Munroe died February 12, 2002He is survived by Virginia, his wife of 46 years; their son, Michael C. Munroe and his wife, Mary Claire Munroe, of Dallas; and his daughter, Martha Herff of San Antonio.

Grandchildren are August F. Herff IV, Sarah Elizabeth Munroe and Amy Virginia Munroe.

Other survivors include his two brothers, William A. Munroe and his wife, Maryann of Houston and Thomas W. Monroe and his wife, Elizabeth of Fair Oaks Ranch. He was preceded in death by their sister, Judith Edwards Jones.

Clark was born October 27, 1925, in Cherry Tree, Pennsylvania. The family moved to San Antonio in 1942 when his father, Thomas W. Monroe, was stationed at Randolph Field during WW II.

Clark was a Ruling Elder of First Presbyterian Church where he also served as treasurer and a long time Sunday School teacher. For fourteen years he was a director of the San Antonio Children's Center, a non-profit children's psychiatric hospital. He received the Silver Beaver Award for work with the Boy Scouts of America. He also served as president of the Northwest Rotary Club and received the Paul Harris Medal for his work in Rotary.

He enlisted in the U. S. Navy after graduation from Alamo Heights High School in 1943, serving as a quartermaster on the heavy cruiser, USS Columbus. Following graduation from Texas A&M, he was commissioned in the U. S. Army and served two tours in Korea beginning in 1950 as a tank platoon leader with the Second Infantry Division. His unit was awarded two Presidential Unit Citations for combat actions against the Chinese and he earned seven major battle stars during that war in which he also received the Purple Heart and the Republic of Korea's Distinguished Military Service Medal.

He is the author of The Second Infantry Division in Korea—1950-1951, the division's official history.

Until he retired in 1995, he was president of Munroe, Park & Johnson, a business valuation firm he founded in 1983.