Anita Louise (Black) Clark
Marriages
G. Keith Clark
Obituaries
The Daily Sentinel page 7B - July 3, 2022
Anita L. Clark, 96, left
this world unexpectedly
June 22, 2022, at St.
Mary’s Hospital.
Anita was born October
27, 1925, on Kannah Creek,
the daughter of Walter C.
Black and Katherine M.
Allen. Anita graduated
from Mesa College with
a Teaching Degree, and
that is where she met her
future husband, G. Keith
Clark. They were happily
married until his death on
June 7, 1999.
Anita and Keith had two
surviving children, Katie
A. Steele (Doug) and Calvin A. Clark. Laura Louise
was born August 5, 1954 and passed away on August 6,
1954. Anita was a true outdoors woman, and she loved
her days on the ranch and riding on the Grand Mesa
with friends and family taking cattle up in the summer
and back down in the fall to winter range. She treasured
each and every day she spent on the Grand Mesa and
always jumped at the opportunity to go back and see
the Mesa and feed the chipmunks. She and Keith helped
her brother, Crafts Black, on the Uncompahgre with his
cattle and they repaired many miles of fence. In her
youth, she and her sister, Wanda Black and brother-inlaw, Bill Raber played for dances in the Gateway area
and out into eastern Utah. Anita was an avid reader and
historian. She was a walking encyclopedia on Western
Colorado history and loved to read about Butch Cassidy
and the Hole in the Wall gang. She was an incredible
source of local history to several writers and helped
them with a lot of the details about our local history.
But her pride and joy were her three granddaughters,
Amber, Lilli and Hillary. They were a constant source
of joy, love and caring. She was so proud of them and
shared stories about all three of them to anyone who
would listen. She loved them dearly.
She is preceded in death by her husband, G. Keith
Clark and her brothers, Tom Black, Crafts Black and
her sister, Winifred Raber. Her sister, Wanda is living
in Garden Grove, CA. Anita is survived by her two
children, three grandchildren, extended families, and
may beloved nieces and nephews.
A celebration of life will be held July 25, 2022 from
2:00 to 4:00 at Clarks Orchard River View at 3926
Highway 6 & 24 in Palisade, CO. 81526. October 27,
1925 - June 22, 2022 Anita Louise Clark.
