Doyle Eugene Clark, a 69-year-old resident of Corydon, IA, died on Sunday, Sept. 21, 2003 at the Wayne County Hospital in Corydon.
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Doyle Eugene Clark, a 69-year-old resident of Corydon, IA, died on Sunday, Sept. 21, 2003 at the Wayne County Hospital in Corydon.
Funeral services will be held at 10:30 a.m. on Wednesday, Sept. 24, 2003 at the Randolph Funeral Home in Corydon. Revs. Ross Blount and Danny Moore will officiate. Burial will be in the Cordyon Cemetery at Corydon.
Musical selections will include “The Way I Am” by Merle Haggard and “Am I Wasting My Teardrops” by Doyle Clark and the Sundowners.
Pallbearers will be Darin McGriff, Jeff Snyder, Clint Carpenter, Danny Clark, Todd Wilson and Rudy Finney. Honor bearers will be Verlin Akers, Dick Moore, Carroll Palmer, Don Besco, Tony Bardwell, Bob and Ruth Jones, Wendell Chastain, Donnie McGhee, Nile Castor and the late Kenny Willey.
Mr. Clark was born Dec. 8, 1933 near Modena, the son of Forest and Ethel Hamilton Clark. After high school, he went to work in Perry, IA in a service station. He worked at a variety of occupations, including working for the city of Perry, operating his own sewer and trenching business and working for Moore Electric of Corydon.
He was married in 1952 to Laura McCain and they were the parents of four children, Debbie, Dick, Dianna and Darrell. He then married Linda Wyatt on Sept. 14, 1986 and raised her two children, Jana and Jeff.
Mr. Clark sang, played and wrote country music. His band, Doyle Clark and The Sundowners, played throughout Iowa and Missouri. The band cut its first and only full-length album in 1975, “Always Country.” The band was named Band of the Year in 1972 by the Professional Musicians and Entertainers Club of Iowa. He hosted Sundowner Renions nearly every summer since 1981. He and his wife, Linda, also performed at the Rathbun Country Music Theater from 1987-1990.
Mr. Clark enjoyed hunting, fishing, camping, playing pool and having coffee as well as working on automobiles.
Survivors include daughter Debbie and her children, Bronson and Benjamin; daughter Dianna and her children, Dustin and Kylee; son Dick, his wife, Sid, and their children, Eric and Bryan; son Darrell, his wife, Tina, and their children, Tasha and Mandie; daughter Jana, her children, Wyatt and Gracee; son Jeff, his wife Andrea, and their children, Christian, Blake, Reagan and Kennedy; seven great-grandchildren, Nathanial, Carly, Athena and Issac Soumas, Alexa Hoffman and Kelsi and Kali Clark; a brother, Paul and his wife, Virginia; two sisters, Allie Finney and Annie Snyder and her husband, Max; and several nieces, nephews and friends.
He was preceded in death by his parents; four brothers, Raphael, Hubert, Jim and George; and one sister, Arnetta Richardson.
Memorial contributions are suggested to the Hospice of Central Iowa. These can be sent to the family.