Patricia H. Clark

Patricia Holmes Clark
Patricia Holmes Clark of Hyannis Port, Massachusetts, formerly of Greenwich, Connecticut and Kalamazoo, Michigan, died peacefully on January 25, 2011 surrounded by her family in Boston after a valiant three year battle with cancer. She was sixty years old. A graduate of the University of Maryland, Mrs. Clark received a Masters in Education from Manhattanville College, and was an elementary school teacher in New York for four years. Continuing her career in education, she became an Educational Advisor to child actors for Columbia Pictures in connection with production of the film Kramer vs. Kramer, which led to her later employment as general manager of Dustin Hoffman's New York City production company, Sweetwall Productions. Mrs. Clark next became Senior Vice President of the Beauty division of Seligman and Latz in New York City until she retired to raise a family. She eventually moved to Kalamazoo, Michigan in 1989, to devote her life to raising her children and supporting her husband's career as General Counsel for Kellogg Company.
Throughout her life, Mrs. Clark tirelessly served the communities in which she lived in a variety of ways, including membership on the board of directors of the Manursing Island Club in Rye, New York, the YMCA in Kalamazoo, Michigan, the Kazoo School and the Kalamazoo Academy in Kalamazoo, Michigan. She often said that she was by far proudest of her lengthy service as a youth and family services CASA representative where she assisted the Kalamazoo court system with just and compassionate disposition of juvenile criminal matters, and for which she was awarded the Michigan Association of CASA Volunteer of the Year CASA in 2000. Most recently, she organized the collection and shipment of donated sails to be recycled through Sails for Sustenance for use by subsistence fisherman in Haiti. In addition, she diligently researched and secured a safe and loving adopted home and education in Il a Vache, Haiti for an orphaned Haitian teenager who, under the sponsorship of Mrs. Clark's sister, Joan Obecny, came to the United States and had a successful and life changing major surgery.
Mrs. Clark is survived by her husband, Richard M. Clark of Hyannis Port, her children Alexandra Clark of New York City, and Richard Clark Jr. of Boston, her step-children Lauren Kenny of Rye , and Carolyn Tenney of Bedford , New York, her grandchildren, Grace and Thomas Tenney of Bedford, and Conor, Christopher, Allison and Timothy Kenny of Rye , New York, her sisters, Clare Newbrand of Richmond , Virginia, Karen Jensen of Needham, Massachusetts, Joan Obecny of Olney , Maryland, Catherine Holmes of New York City, and Jacqueline Haley of Weymouth, Massachusetts, and her brother, Donald Holmes of Denver, Colorado.
Visiting hours will be held at the Doane, Beal & Ames Funeral Home, 160 West Main Street, Hyannis, MA on Sunday, January 30th from 4 to 8 P.M. A funeral mass celebrating Mrs. Clark's life will be held at Our Lady of Victory Church, 230 South Main Street, Centerville, MA on Monday, January 31st at 11 A.M. Family and friends are welcome. In lieu of flowers, donations may be made to St. Boniface Haiti Foundation, 400 North Randolph Street, Randolph, Massachusetts, 02368 or at http://www.haitihealth.org/.