Nellie Ann Clark

Memorial Service – February 21, 2021 at 2:00 pm Visitation 12:00 – 2:00 pm

Memorial Funds to be given to: Alzheimer’s Association

Nellie Clark, age 88, passed away peacefully on January 28, 2021, while residing at her granddaughter’s home in Georgetown, Texas.

Preceded in death:

Parents – Lela May Tucker, Mother Jesse Meredith, Father

Three brothers

Husband – Jesse Monroe Clark

Daughter – Karen Lynette Nichols

Son – Robert Alan Clark

Survived by:

Granddaughter/Daughter/Caregiver Laura Lynette Willis and husband Ryan Douglas Willis

Great Grandson, Jeffrey Monroe Mathis

Great Granddaughter, Callie Rose-Karen Mathis

Great Grandson, Ryan Douglas Willis Jr.

Grandson – David Alan Clark and wife Korissa Jai Clark

Great Grandson, Trevor Alan Clark

Granddaughter – Kimberly Ann Melton and husband Mike Melton

Great Granddaughter – Aria Jane Melton

Also a host of friends and extended family

Nell grew up in Mesquite, Texas, with Mom, Dad, and three older brothers. She always said those brothers never had time for a little sister, and then she’d laugh. She married Jesse Monroe Clark on December 24, 1948, at the age of 16. She always said it was love at first sight, so they didn’t waste any time to begin life together. Their family grew with Robert being the firstborn and then Karen, the baby girl.

They began their marriage traveling with APAC, the company Monroe would build a lifelong career with. The APAC employees traveling together would become the “APAC Family.” They traveled in their mobile homes from place to place, mostly in Louisiana. Nell and Monroe would make lifelong friends as they traveled with the company. Nell and her girlfriends would travel together, share family life by having picnics with the children, exchange babysitting, and just have fun as young mothers. Every Sunday they would worship together in church, have lunch together, and Monroe would have movies for them to enjoy. This group of APAC employees were truly “family” during those years.

After much traveling from town to town, there came the day Nell needed to have a more permanent place to raise the children and make a career working in the medical field. The family stopped traveling and settled in their sweet home in Irving, Texas, where her children would grow up and start their own families. It would seem they had batted their eyes and grandchildren were born. Three grandchildren would steal their hearts! Nell and Monroe loved their grandchildren and they loved sharing life with them. Nell loved the getaway lake house they enjoyed in East Texas. They loved being on the water and enjoying the friends they had at the lake house community…fish fry after fish fry and spending time with family and friends.

Alongside Nell’s earthly family was her spiritual family. She trusted Christ as Savior in her early years and she would live out her life loving God, loving others, and loving the church. Nell and Monroe would be the reason for Landmark Baptist Church beginning. They wanted to be involved in a church that was new and wanted to build the kingdom of God. Nell and Monroe beckoned a call to Billy Buckingham and asked him to come to Irving and start a church…even if it was out of the trunk of their car. They were sold out to help the new beginnings of a church that would reach others with the motto, “Help Somebody.” Nell and Monroe were active in every church they were a part of throughout the years. They loved, loved, loved church always!

Nell and Monroe would endure difficult times when their daughter Karen would depart from this earthly world in 1990, and she and Monroe would begin parenting their granddaughter, Laura, and finish raising her for Karen and Sanford. In 2003, Nell would also say goodbye to her son, Robert. In 2006, she would become a widow after 59 years of marriage to Monroe.

As Nell’s own health would begin to decline, she moved to Assisted Living to be able to receive more fulltime care and still live independently. Family, Church members, and friends would be with her in her in her later years. She even lived with church family during this season of her life as she was making her way through more health changes. Nell wanted to be near her granddaughter Laura, so she spent much of these years near Laura and her Family. Nell loved being with others –some she shopped with, some she ate with, some she danced with, some she played with, some she laughed with, and most importantly…ALL of them she loved with.

Nell lived a full life, but her last five months she had the pleasure of living everyday with Laura and her family. She was no longer living alone, but instead she enjoyed the fun and laughter and family every day. She had the best care ever and she was surrounded by those who loved her. While she had memory issues, God gave Nell such clarity in her last days even after having been hospitalized and experiencing kidney problems and oxygen issues. She shared unbelievable memories of her life in her last two days with Ryan and Laura as she told of her growing up years and telling them to live life fully together!

She did all that she had to do on this earth and once her work was done here, God took her by the hand and carried her home to be with Him, her Savior, her husband, two precious children, and all those who had gone before her. We KNOW the Lord told her, “Well done, thou good and faithful servant.”