Joyce Clark

Joyce (Herrick) Clark was born March 22, 1918 in Twinsburg, Ohio, the daughter of Avery and Hulda (Richner) Herrick. She passed from this life February 6, 2015 in Bedford, Texas at the age of 96 years. Joyce had lived in the Grapevine area for the past 3 years, moving from Westerville, Ohio. The 30-year resident of Mountain Home, Arkansas (1979-2009), was a member of the First Church of Mountain Home and served on the Altar Guild. She was 1997 Mountain Home Volunteer of the Year and winner of the Opal Award, as well as a lifetime member and past president of the VFW Auxiliary 2346, 30-year hospital volunteer and past president of the hospital auxiliary, Bargain Box volunteer, past president and membership chairman of Friends of the Library, and a reading Grandma at Nelson Wilks Herron School. Joyce also was chairman of volunteers for the Red Cross Blood Drives at her church. Joyce and Fred R. Clark were united in marriage on March 5, 1944, and he preceded her in death in 1989. Joyce leaves to cherish her memory her daughters and sons-in-law, Virginia and Donald Wenzlik of Lewis Center, Ohio and Deborah and Rick Bennett of Grapevine, Texas; grandchildren: Adam Wenzlik and wife Katie Bailey, Tracy (Wenzlik) and husband Ken Grason, Brook Bennett and bonus granddaughter Christie Murray, and Erika Bennett and fiancé Nathan Stickney; great-grandchildren: Jackie and Noah Wenzlik, and Scarlett Grason; and many loving cousins, nieces and nephews. A memorial service will be held at a later date.