Since the death date was not given the newspaper article date was used. Published in the Pilot-Tribune June 25, 1942
CARA CLARK SUCCUMBS
EARLY BLAIR POSTMISTRESS DIED MONDAY
BURIAL AT FORT CALHOUN
Miss Cara Clark, 85, who in 1884 became Blair’s first and only postmistress and the fourth person to be in charge of the local post office, died in Omaha Monday at the Florence Home for the Aged.
Funeral services, with the Sievers Funeral Home in charge, were held at 2 p.m. yesterday at the Fort Calhoun Presbyterian Church, interment following in Fort Calhoun Cemetery.
Daughter of the late Mr. and Mrs. Elias Hick Clark, territorial pioneers, Miss Clark was born at Fort Calhoun May 30, 1857.
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