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 Mary Sedgwick Clark
June 04, 2004
Mary Sedgwick Clark, 102, formerly of 116 Day St., Fitchburg, and of Lenox, died Friday at Beaumont Nursing Center in Northboro, where she had resided for several years.
Born in Stockbridge on Sept. 27, 1901, daughter of Edward and Florence Barnes Sedgwick, she lived on East Street, where her father and his brother Thomas maintained the Sedgwick family farm. Five generations of Sedgwicks had lived there, beginning with Asher Sedgwick, who purchased the farm in 1805.
Mrs. Clark attended Sedgwick School, a one-room schoolhouse near her home, the old Center School and, for one year, Miss Hall's School in Pittsfield. Her family moved to Oberlin, Ohio, when she was in her teens.
She graduated from Oberlin College in 1925 with majors in art and botany.
During college, she worked for the U.S. Department of Agriculture doing microscopic botanical drawings. For several summers, she attended Berkshire Summer School of Art in Monterey.
She also earned a bachelor of science degree in education from Massachusetts School of Art in Boston in 1928 and traveled that summer with members of her class as a representative to the Sixth International Art Congress in Prague, Czechoslovakia.
In 1929, she married Edwin R. Clark and settled in Fitchburg. Mr. Clark died in 1963.
During World War II, she spent summers at the Sedgwick farm. Mrs. Clark enjoyed playing bridge, drawing, painting, needlework and photography.
She leaves two daughters, Ruth Mary Russo of Marlboro and Barbara Clark of Yarmouthport; four grandchildren, and nine great-grandchildren.
FUNERAL NOTICE -- A memorial service for Mary Sedgwick Clark, who died June 4, 2004, will be held at Rollstone Congregational Church, Fitchburg, at noon on Thursday, June 10.
Burial will be private. Memorial contributions may be made to Rollstone Congregational Church, 199 Main St., Fitchburg, MA 01420, or to the American Heart Association, 20 Speen St., Framingham, MA 01701-4688. SMITH-MALLAHY-MASCIARELLI FUNERAL HOME (www.masciarellifamilyfuneralhomes.net), 243 Water St., Fitchburg, is directing funeral arrangements.
Survivors include several cousins, including Gilbert Sedgwick and Henry Sedgwick, who still reside in Lenox.
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