Mary Winning Clark

WINTER PARK, Fla. — Mary Etta Winning Clark was born to Josephine and John Winning on June 1, 1921, in Eastland, Tenn., and was predeceased by her parents and three younger sisters, Frances Hale, Martha Goodwin and Carolyn McComb; her husband, Dr. Thomas Arnold Clark, and their oldest daughter, Marion Cameron Clark. Mary Etta died on April 20, 2017, in Winter Park, Fla., and is survived by three children, Tom Clark Jr. (Nancy), of Nashville, Sarah Sprinkel (George), of Winter Park and Annie Morrow (Buz), of Chattanooga; seven grandchildren and nine great-grandchildren. Marietta, as she signed her named, was an artist, and her works are valued by all who are lucky enough to possess her paintings. She was a mother first and valued family above all else. She never said a bad thing about anyone and was an inspiration for all who knew her. In the late 1960s she and the late Frances Jackson of Nashville, embarked on an adventure that forever changed the landscape of Green Hills by opening the Woman’s Craft Exchange on Bandywood Drive. They were the original entrepreneurs. The Clark’s were White County, Tenn., natives; lifelong members of the Church of Christ; and lived in Sparta, Nashville and Fairfield Glade, Tenn., and Winter Park, Fla. A graveside service will be held in Sparta, Tenn., at the Oak Lawn Memorial Cemetery on Sunday, May 7, at 2 p.m.