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"My dad is the greatest story teller and remembers everything that ever happened to him. Once you get him started he'll go on and on, but he can't understand why anyone is interested in "that old stuff". He was laughing the other day and telling about how Grandad Lovejoy had built a spring box where a natural spring came out next to the Mina road just north of Bobby and Anna's place. It held a pool of cold water and people would stop there on the way into the Valley to get a drink and wash the dust off. Dad and Sutt (Ken) found a set of buck horns and put them in the brush near the spring. When the next car came the driver blasted the horns to pieces. He heard Dad and Ken giggling in the bushes and chased them down the hill. He didn't catch them though. They were scared though, who ever it was was spitting mad. "
Kathy (Clarke) Smith

"Kathy,

This story is just too funny, it sounds like something your dad would do. One of the first things Mary Lou told me about was him riding his motorcycle across America. She said he was one of the more interesting people she had ever met, and one of the kindest, nicest. "
Susan Slade Grossl

Ukiah Republican Press (Ukiah, California) Wed, Sep 28, 1949, Page 9
JOE CLARK HOME FROM NAVY TOUR
Joe Clark arrived home Friday of last week after a trip by motorcycle across the states from Philadelphia Naval Yard where he received an honorable discharge from the U. S. Navy on Aug. 31. Joe entered the Navy during World War II for the duration and re-enlisted when the war was over. He has been with a submarine crew ever since entering the Navy and was based at Panama from whence they made their many interesting side trips. Most noted among these trips was when his submarine went with an Admiral Byrd expedition of 13 ships to the Antarctic. His submarine, the U. S. S. Sennett became so badly battered, when they ran into ice, that it had to be towed a great part of the way.
It was the only submarine in the group and went chiefly for experimental purposes. Admiral Byrd was on the flagship in this group. Other interesting ports that Joe had the opportunity to visit were Tahiti, ports in Australia, New Zealand, Cuba, Trinidad and most of the Islands of the Caribbean.
Joe kept his motorcycle at his base in Panama and when he was in port there, and given leave, he would travel about the country as much as his time permitted.
On Jul 15 the U. S. S. Sennett arrived at Key West, Florida, and there he was given a 20-day leave. He with two other boys traveled by motorcycle as far north as Quebec up the St. Lawrence river.
One of his sight-seeing plans was to visit Bangor, Maine, where his grandfather George Lovejoy was born, which he did. They also visited many of the historical spots along the way. After Joe's return to Key West, Florida, his submarine continued on up the Atlantic Coast to Philadelphia where he received his discharge from the Navy. On his way home he stopped in Iowa to visit some cousins and a great uncle living there.
Joe said that he had traveled over 10,000 miles by motorcycle and had never had an accident or near accident.

Ukiah Republican Press (Ukiah, California) Wed, Sep 28, 1949, Page 9
Kendall Wallace Lovejoy who has been vacationing with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Robert Lovejoy, drove to Santa Rosa last Friday. He was accompanied by his cousin, Joe Clark. On Sunday Kendall will leave for Geyserville where he will resume his position as music instructor in a school there.

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Birth	8 Jun 1927	Ukiah, Mendocino, California, United States
Marriage	1955	Ukiah, Mendocino, California, United States - Living
Death	24 Oct 2009	Covelo, Mendocino, California, United States
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Father	William Victor "Bill" Clarke (1892 - 1955)
Mother	Harriett "Hattie" May Lovejoy (1895 - 1996)
Sibling	May Lee Clarke (1920 - 2007)
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