Elizabeth Lee Clark

Elizabeth "Sammy" Lee Dixon Clark of Glasgow, Kentucky  born April 14, 1924, passed away on January 9, 2017 at the NHC Healthcare in Glasgow, KY. at the age of 92.. Born at home, Hyden, Leslie County, Kentucky delivered at home by the Mary Breckinridge Frontier Nursing Service.

Preceded in death by:  Parents: Robert Lee Dixon and Bess Lewis Dixon of Hyden, Leslie County, Kentucky. Brothers and sisters: Billie Dixon, Anna Lee Rader (Robert G. Rader), Robert Lee Dixon (Helen Dixon), Earnest Harold Dixon and Alma Dorn Dixon White. Son: Larry Burell Kern Nephews and Nieces: Joanne Elizabeth Rader, Robert Todd Lombard, Richard Frederick Lombard, III, Jacob Lewis Watson, Rodney Lee Dixon, Karen Dixon, Donnie and Bobby Glenn Wholstenholm.

Survived by: Her loving daughters, Sharon Kern Bryant (Stan Bryant) of Oxnard, California and Kelli Ann Clark Davis (Mark Oakes) of Glasgow, Kentucky, step-son Douglas Clark of Austin, Texas and her precious grandchildren, Jennifer Issa of Calabasis, California, Andrea Issa of North Hollywood, California, Missy Bryant of Valencia, California, Michael Bryant of Denver, Colorado and Rose Kern of Seattle, Washington and three great-grand children.
Sister Ruth Dixon Watson of Danville, Kentucky.
Nieces and Nephews: Bobbie Ann Rader Lombard [Richard Lombard], John Robert Rader of Louisville, Lesa Watson [Robert Taylor] of Danville, Paula Harris [John Harris] of Apple Valley, California, Deborah Tornello of Henderson, Nevada, Lynda Dyer, Gary Wholstenholm and David Wholstenholm of Reno, Nevada, and a host of great nieces and great nephews, great-great nieces and great-great nephews.

Liz was a member of the Baptist Church and a retired hair stylist with salons in California, Hazard, Hyden and Danville, Kentucky. She was a life-long supporter of our military and a member of the Eastern Star, VFW Auxiliary and American Legion Auxiliary. After graduation, she lived in Louisville, Kentucky, and worked in a defense factory during World War II. She attended and graduated Beauty School in Louisville, Kentucky. While her husband Wallace F. Clark USMC, was stationed at the US Embassy in Copenhagen, Denmark, Liz was a Sunday school teacher and enjoyed entertaining dignitaries. Liz enjoyed traveling continental and intercontinental, taking cruises and seeing the world.

Liz, known affectionately by her family as “Sammy” was born in Hyden, Leslie County and was delivered by the Frontier Nursing Service. The bronze statue in Hyden commemorating Mary Breckinridge with a young girl bears a striking resemblance to Sammy as a child. Her mother, Bess Lewis Dixon was a close friend of Mary Breckinridge. While Sammy’s husband was serving in Vietnam, Sammy and her daughter Kelli stayed with her father Robert Lee Dixon for a year at the old home place. She will best be remembered for daring all those who crossed her siblings to meet her at the peach tree of the family farm, her wonderful wit and her uncanny ability to make a silk purse out of a sow’s ear.