Services for Carrie Mae Clark, of DeSoto, Texas, formerly ofUnion Church, are 11 a.m. Saturday, May 2, at Mt. Moriah M.B.Church in Union Church with burial in the church cemetery.

Visitation is Friday from 1 until 5 p.m. at Williams Mortuarywith family present from 7:30 until 8:30 p.m.

Mrs. Clark, 73, died April 27, 2009, at her residence in DeSoto.She was born in Wyatt, Mo., on April 25, 1936, to George Emersonand Carrie Pollard Emerson.

She was a homemaker. She was a member of Mt. Moriah M.B.Church.

Preceding her in death were her parents; and her husband, JessieT. Clark.

Survivors are her sons, Larry Clark and wife, Ella, of Atlanta,Ga., and Jessie Clark and wife, Ruby, of New Smyrna Beach, Fla.,Aron Clark and wife, Donna, of San Diego, Calif., Anthony Clark, ofFayette, and Ricky Clark and wife, Helen, of DeSoto; her daughters,Shirley James and husband, Mando, of Louisville, Ky., and DianeBuie and husband, Perry, of New Smyrna Beach, Fla.; her brothers,George Emerson and Merle Emerson, both of Chicago, Ill.; a sister,Ruby Bankhead, of St. Louis, Mo.; her 17 grandchildren; and herfive great-grandchildren; and many other relatives.