- Date Of Birth: July 1, 1932
- Date Of Death: July 16, 2022
- State: Alabama
William “Bill” Zelma Clark Jr. was born in Savannah, Tennessee, July 1st, 1932, to William and Mary Clark. When he was one year old, his family moved to just below Moundville, Alabama, and eventually to Moundville itself, where Bill was raised. There, he grew up learning how to work on machines with his father, fishing, and hunting with his bird dog Jock. For most of his life Bill was called simply Junior, and this nickname stuck even well into his adulthood. He met the love his life, Patricia, marrying her in 1966, and with her moved to Tuscaloosa, where they raised two boys.
Bill had too many friends to count, and with Patricia was a member of Forest Lake United Methodist Church. He loved his wife with the complete, utter devotion that is typically confined to fairy stories, and told her so daily, reminding his sons with complete sincerity that she was the sweetest person in the world and that he was the luckiest husband on earth. Her untimely death from cancer in 2015 devastated him, though he continued his volunteer work for some years.
Bill is survived by his oldest son, Douglas, his youngest son, Phillip, a daughter-in-law Maiko, and his two grandsons, Taichi William and Sota Vincent, all of whom loved him dearly.
