Clara Zoe Clark

Clara Zoe (Hurt) Clark was born at home in Fairfax, Oklahoma, July 22, 1935 to Millie Mae (Mobley) Hurt & Roy Underwood Hurt. As a girl Zoe worked in the grocery store at Fairfax owned by her dad and grandfather and learned to run the cash register and do bookkeeping that she used as a basis later in life for her career at Odessa Savings and Cleveland National Bank. While beginning as a small-town Oklahoma girl, Zoe lived in Arkansas, California, New Mexico, Wyoming, West Texas, and Central Texas before returning to Oklahoma and settling in Cleveland.
Zoe’s mother Millie described her as a “good hand” at whatever she put her mind. Her efforts included hand painting western shirts to perfection, leather tool work, or sewing yards of rick rack and ruffles for dresses for her two daughters. She was chosen out of a cake decorating class to manage a bakery where she created many amazing wedding cakes for over six years. Zoe was an avid reader, loved music of all genres and relished movies both old and new. When she was a nine-year-old during World War II, her love of movies began when she walked with her brother to late movies while their mother worked nights in the shipyards in California.
Zoe joined the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints as a teenager in Hobbs, New Mexico, and remained a devoted member with an unshakable testimony from then on. She married Jackie Lee Clark on January 11, 1952, and they became eternal companions in the Mesa Arizona Temple on June 2, 1965. Zoe served in the children, youth and women’s organizations of the church throughout the years. One of her favorite callings was serving as a Stake Relief Society counselor and traveling all over West Texas to visit women’s Relief Society groups riding shotgun with one of her best friends. Just a few years ago, Zoe also trained to acquire new skills to serve in the addiction recovery program. She found joy most recently serving as a worker at the Oklahoma City temple.
Zoe spread love and comfort with her home style cooking from feeding the missionaries to making favorites for potluck dinners, compassionate service and sharing holiday treats that included divinity and fudge. Grandchildren have almost fought over the last of her famous hot sweet pickles. She recently taught great grandsons how to make her biscuits and gravy recipe.
Zoe is survived by her 90-year-old brother Roe Hurt and wife Gwen. Roe taught her to box when she was nine and said she had a mean left jab but in present day he says “she is the best.” Her sister Sandra Copeland and husband Robert (Bud) of Pawnee. Sandra called her “sisee” but considered her a second mother. Older sister Beverly Harris resides in Houston. Zoe was preceded in death by her husband Jackie Clark and her son Rocky Clark. She leaves behind daughters Debra Clark Eckel of Garland Texas & Ronda Clark Barnett and her husband Michael of Austin Texas. Zoe was blessed with five grandchildren Jeremy Brown (deceased) - Jessica Eckel Blad and husband Shawn, Nick Eckel and wife Caroline, Kathryn Eckel Robinson and husband Paul from the Dallas area and Rocksan Tai Clark of Las Vegas Nevada as well as beloved cousins, nieces and nephews. Zoe doted on her eight precious great grandchildren and had the pictures to prove it.
Zoe’s good humor, quick wit and love language of cooking will be missed by her family and friends of all ages.




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