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Coan Clark

Coan Clark

Female 1945 - 2018  (73 years)

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  • Name Coan Clark  [1, 2
    Born 17 Feb 1945  Anadarko, Caddo County, Oklahoma, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [2
    Gender Female 
    Biography Obituary on FindAGrave, no citation to a newspaper:

    Coan Rush passed away on December 19, 2018, at the age of 73. One of thirteen children, she was born in Anadarko, Oklahoma in 1945, to Marvin and Emma Ellen Clark. She attended high school at Gracemont, Oklahoma and was a graduate of Redlands College of Nursing. She was a mother of 3: Tracie Verkler and Stephanie Jones, both of Kingfisher, and Chlee Rush of Portland, Oregon.

    After leaving the farm fields of Caddo County, she moved to Bethany where she married Jim Harris, also from Gracemont. She worked at Deaconess Hospital before shifting into the technical field at Honeywell International Inc., where her math and logical skills were put to use. During her time at Honeywell she was a lead organizer of the labor union and met and married her second husband, Bill Rush.

    Following the end of her second marriage, she journeyed to Houston, Texas and set about making a new life for her and the children. She worked for a time for the offshore oil field company SEDCO before settling in as a comptroller for the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA.)

    True to her sodbuster upbringing, Coan was resilient. Her life took many twists and turns?some with eccentric animation and others out of necessity and desperation but through all of it, she was determined. All beings seek to be noticed in life; however, Coan was not simply noticed but will always be remembered and recalled by those she encountered. You couldn?t miss or mistake her for anyone else because of Coan?s unique perspective on life.

    Coan passes on to her three children and seven grandchildren (Taylor, Magen, Dakota, Samantha, Noah, Abbie, and Kayla) her hard-fought endurance, tender soul and flair for seeking extraordinary in the commonness of the day-to-day.  [2
    Died 19 Dec 2018 
    Buried Kingfisher Cemetery, Kingfisher, Kingfisher County, Oklahoma, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [2
    Person ID I8908  Full
    Last Modified 17 Mar 2022 

    Father Marvin M. Clark,   b. 1 Apr 1907, Willow, Greer County, Oklahoma, USA Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 1979, Caddo County, Oklahoma, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 71 years) 
    Mother Emma Ellen Abernathy 
    Family ID F3301  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family 1 Jim Harris 
    Last Modified 17 Mar 2022 
    Family ID F3315  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family 2 Bill Rush 
    Last Modified 17 Mar 2022 
    Family ID F3316  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  • Sources 
    1. [S6528] Sheila Niell, "2010 ongoing," for Troy David Clark, tree pages, Ancestry.com (http://www.ancestry.com : accessed 15 March 2022). https://www.ancestry.com/family-tree/person/tree/27596369/person/5021480566/facts.

    2. [S6530] Find A Grave (http://www.findagrave.com : accessed 15 March 2022), memorial 220009483, for Coan Clark Rush (1945?2018), with photo and obit transcription [no citation to obituary]; citing Kingfisher Cemetery, Kingfisher, Kingfisher County, Oklahoma, USA).