Robert Dean Clark, 71
Robert Dean Clark, 71, passed away with his family at his bedside on Wednesday, Feb. 8, 2006, in Sagle, Idaho, at the family home.
Funeral services will be held at 10 a.m. on Saturday, Feb. 11, 2006, at Coffelt's Funeral Chapel, 109 N. Division St., in Sandpoint, Idaho.
Graveside services will be held at 2 p.m. on Saturday, Feb. 11, 2006, at Grandview Cemetery in Bonners Ferry, Idaho.
Bob was born on Dec. 19, 1934, in Scottsbluff, Neb., the son of Floyd and Travilla May (Durant) Clark and lived in that area with his parents.
He started elementary school in Gering, Neb., where his father was inducted into the U.S. Army at the beginning of World War II.
In 1944, he moved with his mother to Bremerton, Wash., where he continued his school years.
He began an apprenticeship at Puget Sound Naval Shipyard in Bremerton as a marine electrician, graduating from that in 1956 as well as from high school.
Bob was inducted into the U.S. Army in 1957, where he took basic training in Texas, then in Germany as a medical combat aidman.
He had been promoted to the rank of corpral when, in 1959, he returned to the United States and was released from active Army duty.
He married Rosalyn Frank in Ashland, Ore., in March 1960.
The couple made their home near Bremerton, where Bob resumed his job at the naval shipyard.
They moved to Poulsbo, Wash., in 1966, where they raised their three children, Todd, Megan and Darin.
After Bob's retirement in 1990, they moved to Sagle, where they lived for 15 years before Bob's death from bone cancer.
He is survived by his wife, Rosalyn, of Sagle; three children, Todd Clark of Brinnon, Wash., Megan (Tim) Steinbrecher of Spokane, Wash., and Darin (Jean) Clark of Bremerton; a sister, Velma Dopheide of Bremerton; an aunt, Marvene Farner of Wichita, Kan., as well as many cousins and three nieces.
Bob was preceded in death by his parents, a sister, Ferne Johnson; a half-brother, Nolan Clark; and a nephew, Monty Johnson.
Memorial donations may be made to Bonner Community Hospice, P.O. Box 1448, Sandpoint, ID 83864.
Arrangements are entrusted to the care of Coffelt Funeral Service of Sandpoint, Idaho.