Betty Clark

Thursday, March 14, 2019

PUXICO, Mo. — Betty J. Clark, 79, died March 13, 2019 at Southeast Hospital in Cape Girardeau.

Born Feb. 21, 1940, in Deering, daughter of the late Harlan Lee and Willie Jane Gray Lawson, she had lived in Poplar Bluff and moved to Puxico 16 years ago. She had worked for many years as a secretary at the Lucy Lee Hospital and at the Nutrition Center. She was a member of the First Baptist Church in Puxico.

On July 19, 2002, in Piggott, Ark., she married George Elbert Clark, and he survives of the home in Puxico.

Other survivors include: one daughter, Jackie Walker of Poplar Bluff; one sister, Ann Brown of Huntville, Texas; and seven grandchildren and seven great-grandchildren.

She was also preceded in death by two sons, Greg and Brian Harris; one brother, Junior Lawson; and two grandsons.

Services will be at 1 p.m. Saturday at the First Baptist Church in Puxico with the Rev. Justin Miller of Puxico officiating.

Watkins and Sons Funeral Home of Puxico in charge of arrangements.

Online condolences may be shared at www.watkinsfuneralhome.com.