Garvin County Obituaries -     Clarence Couch
                                
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CLARENCE COUCH

Funeral services for Clarence Franklin Couch, 92, Pauls Valley was conducted 
at 10 a.m., Tues., Feb 14 in the Wooster Funeral Home Chapel with Rev. 
Terry Mott officiating.

Burial was held at the Antioch Cemetery under the direction of Wooster 
Funeral Home.

Couch was born on March 17, 1902, on the Blue River between Tishomingo and 
Wapanucka to Samuel and Mattie Johnson Couch.

Couch came to Pauls Valley at the age of eight and except for short spans,
he had made Pauls Valley his home.

He worked in ship yards during World War II, farmed, built bridges 
around Garvin County, did carpentry work, was a truck driver and 
worked for the City of Pauls Valley in the Water 
Department for 39 years, retiring in 1974.

Couch had a full life and was a hard worker. At any task he undertook, 
he gave 110 percent. He was a faithful, steady employee and a good 
Christian.  He never had a disparing thought or word to say against 
his fellowman.  He was a good neighbor and was always willing to help.

Clarence's motto was to help make the world a better place and 
leave it better when he left it. He touched may lives and he
will be missed by all.

He was preceded in death by his parents, three sisters, 
two brothers; his first wife, Ruby Nichols Couch in 1967 and 
his second wife, Phebe Wickware Couch, in 1993; and two
step-sons, Rev. James Wickware and Albert W. Nichols, Sr.

Survivors include one brother Joe Couch and his wife, Babe 
of Plainview, Texas; one sister-in-law Bernice Couch of 
Plainview; one neice and one nephew, Betty Slawson, and 
Dewayne White, both of Elmore City; step-son Jerry 
Wickware of Springfield, Mo.; one step daughter, Glenna 
Batterton of LaFayette, La.; one step daughter-in-law, Wilma 
Nichols of Pauls Valley; 12 grandchildren; and numerous great-grandchildren.

Pauls Valley Democrat
Wednesday, February 15, 1995