BOWLING GREEN - Jeffrey (Jeff) Wayne Clark, 45, of Bowling Green, died Tuesday, Sept. 30, 2003.
Funeral services will be at 11 a.m. Friday, Oct. 3, at the Mudd-Veach Funeral Home in Bowling Green. Pastor Dennis Johnson will officiate. Burial will be at the Pleasant Hill Cemetery in Pleasant Hill, Ill.
Visitation will be from 4 p.m. to 8 p.m. today at the funeral home.
Mr. Clark was born Sept. 4, 1958, in Hannibal to Wayne Wright and Marilyn Taylor Clark.
He was married to Cindy Guthrie on Sept. 18, 1988, in Pleasant Hill, Ill. She survives.
Other survivors include his parents of Lake St. Louis; one brother, Dan Clark and wife, Sandy, of Edmond, Okla.; one sister, Nancy Clark of St. Charles; three nephews, Matthew, Adam and Thomas Clark; and many aunts, uncles and cousins.
He was preceded in death by his in-laws, Leonard and Glenna Guthrie; and his grandparents.
Mr. Clark grew up in Florissant and was a 1976 graduate of McCluer North High School. He graduated from Bailey Tech School in St. Louis as a diesel mechanic and worked for Niemeyer Tractor and Implement Co. in Bowling Green from 1978-1979. He attended Northeast Missouri State, now known as Truman University, in Kirksville for three years and attended and graduated from the University of Missouri-Columbia in 1984, with a bachelor of science degree in agronomy. In 1986, he moved to Bowling Green, where he was employed with Eastern Missouri Telephone Co., and in 1993, he purchased the Bowling Green operations only of the business communications segment and renamed it Eastern Missouri Communications. He and his wife continued to own and operate the company.
He enjoyed motorcycles, Old Thresher shows, music and his cats. He also enjoyed reading, the outdoors, traveling and being with family and friends. His faith was established in the Christian Church (Disciples of Christ).
Memorials may be made to the Community of Christ Church in Pleasant Hill, Ill., in care of Mudd-Veach Funeral Home, 606 W. Main, Bowling Green, Mo. 63334.
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Louise Ahrens (Rusk) (1970)
Jeff was my next door neighbor for all of our school years, from 1st grade, until the left Florissant in the 1980's. He and his siblings were friends to me and my younger brothers. His mom and my mom were friends. Jeff and I used to walk to school together at Mark Twain. I remember one winter afternoon, walking down Broadmere, the snow was so new and deep we couldn't tell if we were on sidewalk or street. We were on the curb and fell in to the curb side sewer near the north end of the street. We were both terrified, and there was no one around to help us. I can't remember which one of us helped the other out of the sewer. I think I may have had to help him. He was always of slight build, growing up, and I probably would have had to pull him out!
My older sister and mom kept up with the family for years and let me know when we got really sick with cancer. He, apparently, fought a brave, long fight. It sounds like he was a very kind, giving, peace-loving man. He is surely still missed by all his family and friends!