This photograph appeared later with the following caption: "PFC. Francis V. Clark of Saranac Lake, who has been granted an honorable discharge at the Fort Dix, N. J. separation center. He saw four years of service and was stationed at Gen. MacArthur's headquarters in Australia. He is the son of Mrs. James Clark of 7 State street."
Undated, unidentified clipping in a scrapbook at the Saranac Lake Veteran's Club.Born: January 23, 1919 in Saranac Lake
Died: March 4, 2005 in Baton Rouge, LA
Married: Never married
Children:
Francis Vincent Clark was a World War II veteran; he was a son of Herb Clark and Mary Jane (Dowdle) Clark. He grew up at 7 State Street in Saranac Lake and was a 1938 graduate of Saranac Lake High School, and he also earned a diploma in bookkeeping from Albany Business College. Francis entered the U.S. Army in 1941 just a few days before the attack on Pearl Harbor occurred and served until 1946. The remains of Francis Clark are buried in St. Bernard's Cemetery in the Clark family plot. For a few summers in the late 1950s or early 1960s he worked at the Whiteface Inn Golf Club in Lake Placid.
