Ernestine Clark

Mrs. Lela Ernestine Clark, 91, of Union City died Friday, September 21, 2012, at Baptist Memorial Hospital in Union City. Services will be held at 2 p.m. Wednesday, September 26, 2012, at Pilgrim Rest Missionary Baptist Church with Rev. A. E. McCadney officiating. Interment will follow in East View Cemetery. Visitation will begin at 10 a.m. at the church on Wednesday. She was born March 31, 1921, in Cotton Plant, AR to the late Rev.Charlie and Magnolia (Liggins) Fitzpatrick. She later moved to Union City, TN and graduated from Miles High School and attended nursing school in Nashville. She worked for Dr. D. P. Harris as a nurse for many years and the Union City School System until her retirement. She was a member of Pilgrim Rest Missionary Baptist Church. She was married to the late Joe Nathan Clark. She is survived by two daughters, Blossie Clark and Ealer Bass both of Union City; five sisters, Rosetta (Alvin) Hardwick of Madison, AL, Florence (Duncan) Kaufmann and Roberta Jones both of Ann Arbor, MI, Brenda (Arthur) Graham of Ypsilanti, MI and Maryline Kane of Peoria, IL; two brothers, Jerome Fitzpatrick of Gary, IN and Willie Fitzpatrick of Jacksonville, FL and four grandchildren, nine great-grandchildren and two great-great grandchildren. She was preceded in death by her son, Anthony Clark, three grandchildren, Jeffery Clark, Gwen Clark and Knox Bass; Two sisters, Frances Morris and Elnora Morgan, two brothers, Patterson Omega Fitzpatrick and Charles Fitzpatrick and a son-in-law Joe Knox Bass. Rawls Funeral Home – Union City 731-885-8110