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Virginia Clarke
American
American, (1908–1997)
Virginia Clarke was the daughter of Proctor K. and Ruth G. Clarke and was born November 8, 1907, in Albany. She is the granddaughter of two pioneer West Texas families. Martin B. Gentry and A. A. Clarke. Clarke attended Albany Public Schools, graduating with honors in 1925. After earning a teacher's certificate in 1926 at McMurry college, she began a long career in public education. She taught Spanish and middle grades at Post Common School in Haskell country for one year and returned to Albany to teach until 1942 when she accepted the position of Laboratory School librarian and supervisor of School Library Practice at North Texas State University. In 1956 she became a consultant in library service for the Texas State Education Service in Austin, and in 1957, served as a consultant in the establishment of a library system at the Devonshire Elementary School in Andrews. Clarke did volunteer work at Texas Women's College in Denton, classifying and processing audiovisual material for the TWU library until she retired to Trinity Terrace Life Retirement Center in 1983. She suffered a stroke in 1988. Virginia Clarke died at Trinity Terrace, Ft. Worth, at the age of 89. Services were held in Davis Chapel, First Presbyterian Church. interment was in Albany Cemetery.