Fowlie, LaVaughn L. Clark

LaVaughn L. Clark Fowlie, 94, longtime resident of Coralville, died Monday, Jan. 30, 2012, at the Atrium Village in Hills, Iowa, where she has resided. Funeral services will be held at 11 a.m. Thursday, Feb. 2, at the Coralville United Methodist Church with the Rev. Doug Williams officiating. Graveside services will be held at 3 p.m. Thursday at the I.O.O.F. Cemetery in Indianola. Visitation will be after 10 a.m. Thursday until services at the church in Coralville.

Memorial donations can be made in LaVaughn's memory to the Coralville United Methodist Church or Iowa City Hospice.

Online condolences may be send for her family through the web at .

LaVaughn Luella Smith was born March 12, 1917, in New Virginia, Iowa, the daughter of William N. and Thora (Sayre) Smith. She attended Hoosier Row Rural School in Warren County, Iowa, graduated from Indianola High School in 1934, and had attended Simpson College there. She married Dorris D. Clark on May 5, 1935, in Guthrie Center, Iowa. The couple and their family moved from Indianola to Coralville in July 1952. Dorris died in June 1962, she later married Gerald G. Fowlie on March 19, 1977, at the Coralville United Methodist Church where they both were active members, in fact she was one of the charter members of the church. For over 20 years she worked for the University of Iowa Hospitals as a coding clerk. She was also a member of the Rebekah Lodge #416 and the D.A.R.

Her family includes her three sons, James Clark (Betty) of Cedar Rapids, William E. Clark (Donna) of Florence, Ky., and Gerald Clark (Judith) of Coralville; nine grandchildren; 16 great-grandchildren; and a brother, Bernard Smith (Ethel) of Indianola.

She was preceded in death by her parents; her husbands, Dorris Clark and Gerald Fowlie; son, Robert D. Clark; and a half-brother, Kenneth Smith.

Published in The Gazette Jan. 31, 2012.