{"id":149570,"date":"2021-12-21T23:26:15","date_gmt":"2021-12-22T04:26:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/?p=149570"},"modified":"2021-12-21T23:26:18","modified_gmt":"2021-12-22T04:26:18","slug":"mark-j-clark","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/2021\/12\/21\/mark-j-clark\/","title":{"rendered":"Mark J. Clark"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Mark J. Clark, 54, of Convoy passed away at 9:20 a.m. Tuesday, December 21, 2021 at Mercer Health. He was born in Columbus, the son of Jim and Martha (Wermer) Clark, who both survive.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignright size-large\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"275\" height=\"455\" src=\"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/Mark-Clark-12-21-2021.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-149572\"\/><figcaption>Mark Clark<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Also surviving him are sons: Austin (Leslie) Clark of Ohio City, Lucas Clark of Convoy and Chase Clark also of Convoy. He is also survived by two grandchildren, Dallas Clark and Dakota Clark; a sister, Kim (Eric) Grubaugh of Van Wert, and a brother, Troy Clark of Van Wert.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Mark farmed for many years and then was a truck driver for the remainder of his working years. His hobbies included collecting farm toys and watching westerns.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Friends and family may call from 11:30 a.m. until 2 p.m. Friday, December 24, at Brickner Funeral Home, Van Wert. Funeral services will follow at 2 p.m. with Rev. Terry Martin officiating. Burial will follow at Taylor Cemetery.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Preferred memorials: Colonial Nursing Home or to donors choice.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Online condolences may be expressed at <a href=\"https:\/\/bricknerfuneralhome.com\">www.bricknerfuneralhome.com<\/a> or emailed to <a href=\"mailto:bricknerfuneralhome@bright.net\">bricknerfuneralhome@bright.net<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mark J. Clark, 54, of Convoy passed away at 9:20 a.m. Tuesday, December 21, 2021 at Mercer Health. He was born in Columbus, the son of Jim and Martha (Wermer) Clark, who both survive. Also surviving him are sons: Austin (Leslie) Clark of Ohio City, Lucas Clark of Convoy and Chase Clark also of Convoy. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-149570","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-obituaries"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-05-31 21:11:26","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149570","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=149570"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149570\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=149570"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=149570"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=149570"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}