Lauren H. Clark
1919 – 2005
Lauren H. Clark, formerly of Parkers Prairie, and more recently of Yreka in northern California, died in Redding, California on May 11, 2005.

Lauren was born 86 years ago in Worthington. He grew up in Osakis, where his father Anthony Kelley Clark was a pharmacist and his step-mother Lauretta Landes Clark, was an elementary school teacher. (His biological mother Irene Loomis Clark died shortly after his birth, during the 'Spanish' Influenza epidemic.) After high school Lauren attended Frank Wiggins Trade School in Los Angeles. In El Paso, Texas, in 1942, he married Marguereite M. Torkelson, a nurse from Eastend, Saskatchewan, Canada, whose parents were originally from Paynesville. During WWII, Lauren taught radar at Fort Bliss, El Paso, where their eldest daughter Irene was born. After VE Day, Lauren was shipped to Italy for a year to help supervise German prisoners of war and the reshipment of war material to the Pacific front. After the war he worked for Western Electric in Minnesota.

In 1948, Lauren purchased the Arrow Theater in Parkers Prairie. Their next four children Paul, Sally, Rick, and Kelley were born in Minnesota. When he sold the theater in 1961, he moved his family to California, where he worked in research and development for Lockheed, Missiles and Space Company, Sunnyvale, California.

After 25 years at Lockheed, he retired and they moved to Yreka, California, where their home provided a view of Mt. Shasta. In 1992, they celebrated their 50th wedding anniversary. Lauren was a life-long avid ham radio operator.

He was predeceased by his mother, father, step-mother, wife Marguerite, and son Rick Clark. Lauren is survived by his children Irene Clark-Wolfson of Toronto, Canada, Paul Clark, California, Sally Clark-Mills also of Toronto, Canada, and Kelley Clark of Redding, California, grandchildren Peter, Justine, Chelsea, Courtney, Richard, Tara, Sean, and two great-grandsons.

Burial was at Eagle Point National Cemetery in Oregon.