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Funeral program of Lt. Col. Major Clark

1999

Tulsa, Tulsa County, Oklahoma, United States, North and Central America

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Source catalog description

This description refers to material held by Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture. Visual details below describe the original material.

Digital copy of a funeral program for Lt. Col. Major Clark. The program is printed in black ink on a single sheet of blue paper, folded to form four pages. The first page, or cover, reads [Homegoing Service / for / Lt. Col. Major Clark / 1917-1999] and has a black and white portrait of Clark in military uniform. Beneath the photo, the program has details for the funeral service, held at Rose of Sharon Baptist Church in Tulsa, Oklahoma. The first interior page has several paragraph titled [Reflections on the LIfe of Lt. Col. Major Clark] from his birth in Headland, Alabama and childhood in Haskell, Oklahoma, to his military career, which involved service, World War II, Korea and a position at the Pentagon. He retired from the Army in 1960 and relocated to Tulsa, Oklahoma.

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Catalog reference: 2014.117.68

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