Lois Clark-Tandy

Graveside services will be held at South Park Cemetery for Lois LaVonne Reynolds ClarkTandy, at 4:00 p.m., Friday, October 26, 2012. She went to be with her Lord on October 23, 2012. She was a member of Calvary Baptist Church. Services will be conducted by Pastor Lonnie Owen of Christs Church.

The family will receive friends today, Friday, October 26th, at LaGrone Funeral Chapel from 1:00 PM until 3:00 PM.

Lois was born on October 19, 1930 in Toledo, Ohio, to Bertha and Clyde Reynolds. She grew up in Elyria, Ohio, and married Rev. Robert Jay Clark in 1957. They lived and worked in churches around the Steubenville and Mingo Junction areas, in Ohio until 1975, when they moved to Roswell.

Lois lived a long and happy life, and she loved many people. She enjoyed homemaking and yard work, many hobbies, and making elaborate wedding cakes for her family. She played the piano and organ in her husbands churches, over the years, and music and singing absorbed much of her life. She also wrote and directed many plays, programs and Vacation Bible Schools, and taught various ages in Sunday Schools. She loved reading, and writing articles, stories and poems, and left a full length book titled Mustard OnThe House to her grandchildren. She worked in Ohio and New Mexico with Girl Scouts and Cub Scouts and P.T.A.

Lois was predeceased by her parents her husband of thirty years, Robert her first born son, Jay, at the age of three years her brother Rev Richard Reynolds a daugheterinlaw, Patricia Clark two sistersinlaw, Gertrude Anderson and Evelyn Hafferkamp a niece, Kathryn Marson and a nephew, Mark Reynolds.

Lois was given the gift of a second love and a new life, when she met and married E.F. Ned Tandy, on Sept 3, 1995. He survives her, at their home. She leaves one sister, Deanna Yearsley, of Florida two sistersinlaw Genie Reynolds of Arkansas and Patricia Knarr of Tennessee one brotherinlaw, Alexander Clark, of Roswell and many nieces and nephews.

Also surviving are her two daughters, Robin Collins and her husband Billy of Roswell DeVonna Clark of Amarillo, Texas and one son, Todd Clark and his fianc Amanda Beagles of Roswell.

Lois leaves five stepsons: Robert Clark II, John Clark, Howard Clark and his wife Linda, Michael Clark and his wife Audrey, and Charles Clark as well as two exdaughtersinlaw who she loved dearly, Cathy Weaver and Sonjia Breeden.
She also leaves four step daughters: Cecelia Mayne and her husband Bill of Roswell Rebecca Davis and her husband Charlie of Clyde, Texas Lea Anne Johnson and her husband Troy of Clovis and Enid Smith and her husband Gary of Roswell.

Surviving grandchildren are April Locke and her husband Brian, Billy Collins and his wife Charolette, Jenny Adams, Cole Collins, Bobby Collins and his wife Shanley, Kevin Clark and his wife Candace, Chelsea Melendez and her husband Pedro, Mary Ellen Clark, John Clark Jr., Bryan Clark, Heather Allen, Will Mayne, Jinny Thomas, Patricia Keith, Pamela Smith, Cindy Boney, Wesley Johnson, Dusty Johnson, Sherry Cox, Melissa Lebow, Amos Smith and Wyatt Smith plus many great grandchildren and one greatgreat grandchild.

Lois was a very loving and caring wife, mother, and grandmother. They all called her Grandma Lo except for a couple who insisted on calling her Granny She will be missed by many, but she is, at last, safe in the arms of her Lord and Savior.

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