Rosemary Jenelle Clark

Rosemary Jenelle Clark, (born July 5, 2000) passed from this life September 4, 2024. She is survived by her mother Laurie Putman Young (David), her father Samuel Graves Clark, Junior (Yarit), her brother, Alex Clark, and her godmother, Suzanne Herr. Other surviving family members include one grandfather, Larry Putman (Marilyn) and one grandmother, Jenelle Clark, an uncle, Michael Putman (Misty), and an aunt, Sandy Clark, cousins, Madison and Sophia Putman, her mother's aunt and uncle, Sylvia Alexander Dennis and Robert Winston Dennis. Also predeceasing her are a grandmother, Mary Alexander Putman, a grandfather, Samuel Graves Clark, Senior, as well as a great-grandmother, Ouida Summers Alexander and great-grandfather Carl Maxie Alexander.

Early on life did not look promising for Rosemary. Part of Chromosome Two was deleted. The doctors' prognosis: She would never walk, never talk, and certainly never learn to read.

Rosemary's indomitable spirit and God's grace proved the doctors wrong on all three predictions.

Rosemary was able to go to Camp ASSCA for a week each summer for three consecutive years where she made many friends who were also special needs children.

She was able to go to Night to Shine wearing a gorgeous donated dress with her hair and makeup beautifully done by dear friends.

Her mom kept Rosemary's life busy and interesting:

She went to the gym four mornings a week to walk on the treadmill and ride the bicycle. She loved going to the Happy Herd once a week to see her friends and have fun, going to yard sales, to church, and definitely out to eat every weekend, especially if cheeseburgers, sushi, or Mac and Cheese was on the menu.

A child who was never supposed to read or write grew up to be a girl who checked out seven books a week from the library, and has at least a hundred journals with love notes from her friends.

She enjoyed reading to her puppies and reading her mom's text messages aloud. Rosemary exchanged cards and letters with her friends and required a lot of stamps. Everybody loved Rosemary, and she loved people.

In fact, she just loved her full, happy life, enriched because her mother worked at doing that. Her heart was so big; she fulfilled our greatest calling: to love. Her life mattered. She was a blessing everywhere she went. She will be missed here, but she is joyful and fully healed with her Savior, her two grandmothers and the rest of her family in Heaven.

Funeral services will be held from the chapel of Mobile Memorial Gardens Funeral Home on Monday, September 16, 2024 at 10am. The family will receive friends from 9am until service time Monday at the funeral home. Graveside services will be held on Tuesday, September 17, 2024 in Oak Grove Baptist Church Cemetery in Repton, AL at 12noon.