She was born on September 4, 1939 in Kansas City, Missouri to the late Howard Austin Dicken and Clara Belle Burton Dicken. She attended Classen High School and was a 1957 graduate. She attended Oklahoma City University and received an Associate’s Degree in Business.
She married James Franklin Grimm of Blue Springs, MO on February 14, 1970. Their daughter Kelli was born in 1972
She had a career in advertising and marketing for several companies before she and Kelli moved to Texas in 1978. She lived in Plano, Houston, and finally moved with her daughter to her perfect hometown of Austin, Texas in 1983. In Austin, she had a career in the sales industry starting at Computer Craft and working for several gift companies, including Anne McGilvray & Co., traveling the state of Texas and building special friendships with her clients.
Having sold him a computer, she met William Shelton Clark of Harmony Grove, Arkansas who was a University of Texas PhD graduate and affirmed her love for the Texas Longhorns. They married on March 19, 1989, and worked together at his companies SumX and RDK. Shelton has been an extraordinarily generous and loving caretaker for many years.
After losing her father and stepmother, and dealing with a myriad of health issues of her own, Sharon retired in 1995, with the exception of a part time job with the Texas Council of Faculty Senates that she kept until just last year and dearly loved.
Sharon loved animals and had many generations of cats and dogs, and raised and showed Standard Poodles across the Midwest in her young adulthood. Her current collection includes a golden doodle named Picasso and two rescue Persians Toby and Poppy.
Sharon also loved traveling, and she and Shelton and Kelli had many adventures in Europe where she developed a love of European culture, art and food. Her most recent wish had been to travel The Camino in Spain.
She also enjoyed cooking, crocheting, and long walks on the beach looking for seashells.
The great love of her life was her daughter, Kelli Kristine Grimm-Blanscet. One of our family said they were a team from the moment Kelli was born and that couldn’t have been more true. Sharon supported Kelli in everything she did, from school plays to several cross country moves, and she proudly introduced her as a veterinarian to anyone and everyone she met.
Sharon is survived by her husband, Shelton Clark, her daughter Kelli as well as her son-in-law Kyle Blanscet and his children, Kelsey and Kristofer.
She is also survived by her brother Keith Dicken as well as her stepbrothers Rod and Jim Peck and their families whom she loved dearly, and her sister-in-law Patricia Clark Thompson who was a sister of her heart, as well as many dear cousins and their families in Kansas City and Houston.
She is proceeded in death by her parents, “Dick” and Claire Dicken, and her beloved step-mother Evelyn Dicken, as well as her grandparents and Shelton’s parents Mary and Wilton Clark.
There will be a viewing Sunday, February 20 from 4-8 pm at Cook-Walden Chapel of the Hills, followed by a family burial on February 21, 2022 at 12 pm Lakeland Hills Cemetery in Burnet, TX.
Fond memories and expressions of sympathy may be shared at www.cookwaldenchapelofthehills.com for the Grimm-Clark family.
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