Submitted by: Dan Rich
Sherman L. Clark
South Bend Tribune 11/21/1998
Sherman L. Clark, 72, a longtime resident of South Bend, Ind., and a veteran of World War II who fought in the Philippines and later in the occupation of Japan, died at 5:29 a.m. on Wednesday, Nov. 18, at South Bend Memorial Hospital. Sherman was born in Mt. Sterling, Ky., on March 1, 1926, to William and Lydia Clark.
He was an honorary member of the Kentucky Colonels and a long-time seaman for the United States Steel Company, serving as a ship's wheelsman. Sherman's late brother, Morgan Clark, was a captain for U. S. Steel at the time of his death, and was reported to have had the last radio contact with the Edmund Fitzgerald which sank during a storm on Lake Superior on Nov. 10, 1975.
He is survived by sisters, Lydia Filippelli of South Bend and Helen Robinson of North Liberty, Ind.; brothers, David Clark of Valdosta, Ga., and Carl Clark of Colleyville, Texas; a nephew, Robert J. Pate of Osceola, Ind.; as well as 10 other nieces and nephews, and by numerous grandnieces and grandnephews.
Funeral services for Sherman L. Clark will be held at 10:30 a.m. today at the Guisinger Colonial Chapel Funeral Home, South Bend, with the Rev. James Snell officiating. Interment will be in Highland Cemetery, South Bend. There was visitation from 2 to 4 and 6 to 8 p.m. on Friday, Nov. 20, in the Guisinger Colonial Chapel Funeral Home, 3718 S. Michigan Street, South Bend.