Mawmaw Clark, Stories From My Dad

Emma Jane Clark lived to be about 91 years old.  She had a stroke when she was 35 years old that paralyzed the left side of her body.  She could not use her left arm and had to slide her left foot along with a brace on her leg as she walked.  She did not use a wheelchair until she was about 80 years old.  She was a hard worker that loved her family and did not know what the word quite meant. She was a great cook also that knew how to cook everything and spoil her children and grandchildren.  She loved to farm, can and preserve things.  She always kept the house nice and clean and loved to cook for her family.  Dad said that Maw Maw Clark loved it when they would come to visit on Sundays.  She always would have a meal cooked to serve a king.  She always would have potatoes, gravy and the best biscuits in the world.  She would have chicken and usually some other meat with cream corn, slaw, green beans, deviled eggs, fresh tomatoes, cucumbers, applesauce and corn bread.  Then she would have some kind of homemade cake and a pie just out of the oven!  Then she would always insist that dad and Pa Pa Dan eat more because they looked like they had lost weight!  My dad was always a big boy and never looked like he had missed a meal.

Maw Maw loved to swap recipes and share cooking ideas.  Dad said that Maw Maw would always say she didn’t understand why he had to go so far off to school at BYU.  She worried and would write him letters.  She also worried when dad went on his mission to New Mexico.  Maw Maw & Paw Paw Clark were Southern Baptist and never joined the church.  They were good Christians that never missed a Sunday.  They raised PaPa Dan good and prepared him to join the church when he was 18 when he met my Nana. Maw Maw Clark was always proud of dad for serving a mission and dad believes that they will accept the gospel one day.