Leona Clarke

This is our beautiful Loney. She was my dad's great aunt. She went to be with Jesus a week before her 101st birthday. She died this past Wednesday night. This was one of the last pictures taken of this most amazing lady (a week before). She was so special to us and our family. She loved my dad like a son and they were very close. He was her "Nicky". My dad was named after her first husband Nick. There are so many things to remember about her. She had a sense of humor. Try being a kid and rigging the car with fire crackers and a 86 year old woman opens the door instead of your dad (who was supposed to open it) and thinks it is so funny. I thought she was going to have a heart attack then! She loved having us at the farm house. She sang songs in low german and even if she was off key we never knew because it was beautiful. She was loved so much in her lifetime. We were privilaged to know and love her and share part of her life.