CLARK GREEN

GREEN--Clark Ray, longtime resident of Brooklyn Heights and Fire Island Pines, died on October 4, 2022, at age 92. Clark and his identical twin brother Richard Denton Green were born in Honolulu, where their father, a career officer in the U.S. Navy, was then stationed. Consequently, Clark and Dick grew up in East Coast states and California where there were naval facilities. While living in suburban Washington, D.C., in the Mid-1940s, they served as pages in the House of Representatives for two years, later recalling encounters with several future U.S. presidents. In 1952 they graduated from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. As the Korean War was in progress, they immediately joined the Navy in which Clark served for four years. His last duty station was in Brooklyn. Clark then joined the Bankers Trust Company in Manhattan where he served for 40 years, rising to vice president in the trust department. After retiring, Clark liked his Brooklyn Heights neighborhood so much that he continued to live there for the rest of his life. For many years he traveled extensively with his brother who had relocated to southern California in 1982. Every subsequent summer Dick visited Clark four times at Fire Island Pines. Clark liked to say that Dick was one of the few Californians who came to New York to go to the beach! Their joint travels included visiting such islands as St. Thomas and St. Barts in the Caribbean every winter. Annually, they also made one or two overseas trips especially to Europe but also to all of the world's other inhabited continents. Clark was preceded in death by Dick. He is survived by three generations of six nephews and two nieces, Michael, Patrick, Christopher, Jackson and Grant Brown, Nicole, Lawson and Beckett Denton Willis.