Wanda Evans CLARK

1910 - 1991  (80 years)

• Name	Wanda Evans CLARK  [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9]
  Birth	28 Nov 1910	Rio Grande, Gallia, OH   [4, 5, 6, 7, 9]
  Gender	Female
  Residence	1920	Detroit Ward 19, Wayne, Michigan, USA   [10]
  Residence	1930	Raccoon, Raccoon, Gallia, Ohio, USA   [9]
  Death	5 May 1991	Hamilton, Butler, OH, USA   [4]
  Burial	9 May 1991	St. Stephen's Cemetery, Hamilton, Butler, OH, USA   [4, 11]
  Person ID	I11645	Ancestrees
  Last Modified	30 Sep 2024

  
  

  Father	William Edward CLARK,   b. 7 Dec 1883, Gallia County, Ohio, United States of America d. 18 Feb 1958, Gallipolis, Gallia County, Ohio, United States of America (Age 74 years)
  Relationship	natural
  Mother	Grace EVANS,   b. 19 Jul 1887, Raccoon Twp., Gallia, OH, USA d. 4 Sep 1974, Hamilton, Butler, OH, USA (Age 87 years)
  Relationship	natural
  Marriage	7 Apr 1910	Gallipolis, Gallia, OH, USA
  Family ID	F3758	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Charles "Charlie" Henry GETZ,   b. 4 Sep 1904, Hamilton, Butler, OH, USA d. 5 Apr 1958, Hamilton, Butler, OH, USA (Age 53 years)
  Marriage	18 Dec 1945	Hamilton, Butler, OH, USA   [1]
  Children	1. William Charles GETZ  [Father: natural]  [Mother: natural]   2. Grace Ann GETZ  [Father: natural]  [Mother: natural]
  Family ID	F3163	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	30 Sep 2024

  
  

• Photos

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• Notes

  Wanda was a beloved Aunt. She was an attractive woman, five foot, eight inches in height. She went to Rio Grande College for two years and Ohio State University for two years to get her teaching degree. According to "Gallia County One-Room Schools: The Cradle Years", she taught at Pleasant Valley One Room School in 1931/32 outside Rio Grande, Ohio. According to papers in her son's possession, she was actually a teacher for 2 years there. This was the same one room school where she and her sisters went one year as children, and her mother went as a child. The third year, she was told she had the job to teach there but the board told her father that they wanted a kick-back in funds before they'd give her the position again. He refused as that was an illegal practice and that's when she and Marcena went to Hamilton, Ohio to live to be with there sister, Avenelle, who had just gotten a divorce and had a small child to care for. My mother was a senior in High School at the time and had to switch schools to be able to help her sister. Wanda then became a teacher in Butler County, Ohio for 30 years. She taught fourth, fifth and sixth grades throughout her career. Her husband had been fighting lung cancer for two years before he died of a cerebral hemorrhage shortly after her father's death. She raised her children from their preteens upward herself. She was a very loving mother. She said she never felt the need to remarry as Charlie was her life's love. I remember her as a very thoughtful and thought provoking person. She often went her own direction in beliefs. She believed in angels and reincarnation and was a staunch Catholic, all at the same time. She was able to rid herself of cancer which she contracted at about age 65 by changing her diet and following the advice of the physic, Casey, in his books. It was the second attack of cancer that took her life at age 80. She had a memorable laugh, and was easy to be around. She also loved to travel, and spent much of her retirement in fascinating trips with her best friends. I would like to spend my retirement just as she did. (C-1071)

  
  

• Sources

  [S179] Family Bible belonging to Lola Tobin Clark (Family Bible as passed down through Grace Ann Getz McClain). [S2008] Getz, Wanda Evans Clark of Hamilton, Ohio interviewed by Linda Coate Dudick March 1978 in Linda Coate files (CL-6). [S2035] Wanda Evans Clark Birth Certificate #3. [S2036] Getz, Wanda E., Funeral Card. [S64] Ancestry.com, 1930 United States Federal Census, (Name: Ancestry.com Operations Inc Date:2002 Place:Provo, UT, USA;), Year: 1930; Census Place: Raccoon, Gallia, Ohio; Page: 9B; Enumeration District: 0022; FHL microfilm: 2341537, 1,6224::0. [S896] Ancestry.com, 1920 United States Federal Census, (Name: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc. Date:2010 Place:Provo, UT, USA;), Year: 1920; Census Place: Detroit Ward 19, Wayne, Michigan; Roll: T625_817; Page: 12B; Enumeration District: 577, 1,6061::0. [S1616] Ancestry.com, 1950 United States Federal Census, (Name: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc. Date:2022 Place:Lehi, UT, USA;), United States of America, Bureau of the Census; Washington, D.C.; Seventeenth Census of the United States, 1950; Record Group: Records of the Bureau of the Census, 1790-2007; Record Group Number: 29; Residence Date: 1950; Home in 1950: Hamilton, Butler, O, 1,62308::0. [S176] Talmage Cottrell Descendants Chart. [S1449] Ancestry.com, 1930 United States Federal Census, (Name: Ancestry.com Operations Inc; Location: Provo, UT, USA; Date: 2002;). 1930 United States Federal Census [S1447] Ancestry.com, 1920 United States Federal Census, (Name: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.; Location: Provo, UT, USA; Date: 2010;). 1920 United States Federal Census [S2037] The Columbus Dispatch, "Getz, Wanda E.," 5/8/1991.