Eul Dean Clark

Service: 10 a.m. Friday, June 1, at Boxley Baptist Church, with burial at Walnut Grove Cemetery in Boxley; Visitation: 6-8 p.m. Thursday, May 31, at the church, with arrangements with Coffman Funeral Home.

Eul Dean Clark, of Boxley, passed away peacefully on Tuesday, May 29 (2018) at home surrounded by her daughters.

The daughter of Arvel and Elsie (Self) Casey was born Nov. 17, 1924, at Murray. Her family moved from Murray to Boxley Valley in 1935.

Eul Dean retired from the U.S. Postal Service on Oct. 31, 1998, after serving 33 years as the Postmaster in Ponca. She was very active in community and church activities. She was a member of Boxley Baptist Church for 82 years, former treasurer of Walnut Grove Cemetery and was also active in the Compton Busy Bees EHC Club and a 50-year member of Arkansas Extension Homemakers Council. In 2002, she was Newton County Farm Woman of the Year. She was also a former member of the Newton County Special Services Board.

She loved her family and loved to cook. Until the last few years, you could always stop by her house on Sunday after church and she would have a full meal that she prepared before she went to church. A family cookbook was published in her honor, "Clark Family Favorites," with contributions going to Walnut Grove Cemetery.

She loved to send greeting cards to everyone she knew and she loved receiving Christmas cards, displaying them around every door facing.

She was preceded in death by her parents, Arvel and Elsie Casey; her husband, Beecher Clark; two sons, Donnie Clark and Kenny Clark; a grandson, Claude Austin Clark; a son-in-law, Jimmy Stinson; and daughter-in-law, Etta Clark.

Eul Dean is survived by her daughters, Billie Stinson, of Harrison, Kathy Morales and husband Mark, of Russellville, and Deanna Young, of Ponca; 13 grandchildren, 18 great-grandchildren, three great-great-grandchildren, and one due in two weeks; a daughter-in-law, Regina Clark, of Berryville; three special aunts, Laverne Eoff, Modena Thibodeau and Mary Jo Lewis; and her special cousin and friend, Betty Sue Gabbert.

Funeral service will be at 10 a.m. Friday, June 1, at Boxley Baptist Church with Claud Williams and Casey Young officiating. A congregational singing of "Amazing Grace" will be led by her lifelong friend, Nina Lee Fowler.

Burial will follow at Walnut Grove Cemetery in Boxley. Grandsons and great-grandsons will serve as pallbearers.

Honorary pallbearers are Dr. Cathy Clary, Dr. Guy Peeples and the members of Boxley Baptist Church.

Visitation will be from 6 to 8 p.m. Thursday, May 31, at Boxley Baptist Church.

In lieu of flowers, memorials can be made to Walnut Grove Cemetery, HC 70 Box 173, Jasper, AR 72641.

Arrangements under the direction of Coffman Funeral Home of Harrison

Online condolences may be left at www.coffmanfh.com .