Phyllis Pearson Clark, 88, loving wife of 65 years to Thomas E. Clark, passed away December 16, 2022 because of complications from Lewy Body Dementia (LBD). She was born in Baltimore, MD April 11, 1934, a daughter of the late Adolph Pearson and Beatrice Shufelt Wood, and had lived in Branford, CT for 39 years before moving to Orange, CT in 2019. She graduated from Hillhouse H.S. in New Haven in 1952 and then from Southern CT State College. Phyllis was a special education teacher up until she started a family. Family and friends were very important to her and she kept in contact with her many cousins, nieces, and nephews near and far, as well as her friends, new and old. Phyllis and Tom loved to travel, and she especially enjoyed meeting her distant relatives when traveling to Sweden.
Beloved mother of Jill Clark of Caldwell, NJ, and Sally Funnell and her husband James Funnell, Jr. of Redding, sister of Raymond Wood of Oak View, CA, Rick Pearson of Oklahoma City, OK, and Sonia Santillan of Highlands Ranch, CO. Grandmother of Jessica Lipman, Chloe Lipman and her husband Benjamin Litchman, Charlotte Funnell and James Funnell, III. Great-grandmother of Frankie Rose Litchman.
Friends are invited to visit with Phyllis's family at BEECHER & BENNETT, 2300 Whitney Ave., Hamden on Thursday, Dec. 22nd from 12 p.m. to 1 p.m., followed by a prayer service at 1 p.m. In lieu of flowers, memorial contributions may be sent to Calumet Lutheran Ministries, 1090 Ossipee Lake Road, West Ossipee, NH 03890 ( www.calumet.org ).

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