Adele H. Clark

Adele Hartley Clark, blessed this earth for 105 years before peacefully passing away at theLodges Care Center in Springvale on September 22, 2015.She was born in Sanford on July 21, 1910 to Joseph and Alice (Broggi) McCarty. She grew up in downtown Sanford, when Main St. was lined with giant Elms and the streets were not paved.Both of her parents owned businesses in the square: the Quality Market and Broggi store. She spent summers at their cottage on Lower Mousam, where she loved to dive, swim, and entertain friends.She was a 1927 graduate of Sanford High School and a member of the basketball team. A 1929 graduate from the Home Economics department of Nasson College and a member of the theater club. She attended Simmons College until the financial effects of the depression forced her home. She found employment with the Sanford woolen mills and was also a sales representative for Dutchmaid Garment Co.She devoted this part of her life to providing for family, raising two daughters and caring for her ill husband.Adele retired in1972, remarried and the second part of her life began. She moved into a farm house in North Shapleigh, which she furnished with family antiques. Her large, round kitchen table was the gathering spot for family and friends, and the place for serving up delicious homemade meals and lively conversations.She kept herself busy with gardening, chair caning, needle point, loom weaving, bridge,crossword, cross country skiing and camping. She was active in the Action/Shapleigh Historial Society, the York County Weavers' Guild, the Women's Fellowship at the West Newfield Congregational Church and the Springvale College Club. She also volunteered at Lafayette school.She spent winters in Florida. Adele was always ahead of her time in her thinking and viewed life positively. She was fiercely proud of her Italian, Irish heritage and took great pride in her family especially her grandchildren and great-grand children. Because of her incredible memory and storytelling ability she showered all with entertaining and informative stories. She loved life and new adventures, andshe gathered strength and energy from the people around her. She will be remembered as a kind, loving and caring mother and grandparent and will be dearly missed by all.Adele is predeceased by her first husband, James Greenwood Hartley and her second husband Harold Clark.Surviving are two daughters: Dorothy-Ann Gallagher and her husband James, Joan Fedan Schurman and her husband Wesley; a step daughter Connie (Clark) Warnick and her late husband Karl; six grandchildren: Patrick Gallagher and his wife Nicola, Stephen Fedan and his wife Stacie, Joseph Fedan, Colleen and her husband Nathaniel Bacon, Alicia and her husband Scott Mudgett, and Michael Gallagher; and five great grandchildren: Hunter, Adela, Walter,Lucia and Hartley.Visitation will be held on Saturday, October 3, from 10:00 a.m. to 11:00 a.m. with a funeral service at 11:00a.m. at Carll-Heald & Black funeral Home, 580 Main St., Springvale, with the Reverend Peter W. Leon, of Kennebunk officiating. Burial will follow at St. Ignatius Cemetery, Sanford.Those planning an expression of sympathy are asked to consider sending a memorialcontribution to: The Lodges Care Center Activity Fund, 51 Main St.,Springvale Maine 04083Arrangements are under the direction of Black Funeral Homes & Cremation Service: Sanford-Springvale.Condolences can be expressed at tab at left.Arrangements are pending.