A funeral service will be held at Vancouver Funeral Chapel at 2:30 pm, Sunday, January 29, 2017, with private interment at Park Hill Cemetery in Vancouver, Washington.
Clara was born April 18, 1922, in the big white house on the farm by the banks of the Columbia River owned by her parents, David and Lena Scherruble. The dairy farm later became known as Frenchman’s Bar.
She attended a one-room schoolhouse at the edge of the farm later graduating from Vancouver High School in 1939. She married Michael Bleth in 1944.
During the 1948 flood she, along with her husband and two small babies made their way from the farm upriver to the Dubois boat ramp near the railroad bridge in a small boat with a 5 hp motor, dodging logs and debris. Being flooded out of their home on the river, they moved to east rural Vancouver where they had two more children.
Clara lost Mike in a truck accident involving black ice in 1962 leaving her with four young children. She returned to school to become the payroll clerk at Boise Cascade where she retired after 18yrs. In 1976 she married Edward B. Lemar celebrating over 25 years of marriage before his death in 2003.
She spent her life working hard - raising 4 children herself, building cabinets for the basement, maintaining the house and yard, taking care of and rehabilitating Ed after a stroke. She enjoyed sewing, crafts and oil painting plus luring every cat in the neighborhood to her house.
Clara will always be remembered for her love and obedience to her Lord, her inquisitiveness, knowledge and enthusiasm on so many things in life and her love and generosity of spirit for her family.
She is predeceased by her parents, her brothers David and Donald Scherruble, husbands Michael Bleth and Edward Lemar.
She is survived by her children Carol Huffman, Nancy Reinhart, Vancouver; Gene Bleth & Joanne Knutson, Battle Ground; & Alan Bleth & wife Kathy, Brush Prairie; grandchildren Steve Huffman, Kristy Huffman (Kyle)Gerlach , Breanne Reinhart (Riley)Maygren, Alicia Reinhart (Danny)Beahm, Lindsey Bleth (Tyler)Sundby and Hayley Bleth (Matt)Frey, ten great grandchildren including a new set of twins plus another set of twins on the way.
Memorial contributions can be sent to the American Heart Association.
Arrangements under the direction of Vancouver Funeral Chapel, Vancouver, WA.
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