“In memory of the passing whim Of one who’d been so kind to him—” In the death of Mrs. Eva Gould Clark at the family home in this city early Monday morning at the advanced age of eighty-four years, the writer is reminded of these lines by Edgar Guest, because Mrs. Clark has been “so kind” in many ways. In the busy days of newspaper writing, the words of commendation, the “I like your column” or “I like what you wrote about our old friend” are not so frequent that they are ever unappreciated. Mrs. Clark often, even when too ill to be out among friends, expressed her appreciation by card or telephone. When health permitted, she showed her liking for friends of all ages by her gracious hospitality. For several years she has been ill, and the younger generation know her only as “the elderly lady who lives on the corner”. But older friends remember her for her cleverness, her jovial disposition in her younger days, her civic interests when she had the happy companionship of her husband, Joseph A. Clark. Mr. Clark died in 1935 During her last years, Miss Mary Cochrane, city librarian, has lived in her home and has been her faithful friend. When one is all of eighty-four years, it is so easy to forget that the same one was once well and strong and active in community life. It is because we do remember th at we pen this tribute to Eva Gould Clark. She was the daughter of Judge John H. Gould, who served as judge of the Circuit Court from 1877 to 1888, and Mary Robertson Gould. She has spent almost all her life in the home on east Franklin street known to old- timers as “the Gould property”. She leaves a son, John Gould Moyer, who is a retired Admiral of the U. S Navy; a grandson John Sibbitt Moyer, Lieutenant U. S. Navy, retired, of Coronado, California; a granddaughter, Betty Moyer Bacon, of Mount Pleasant, Michigan, and four great-grandchildren. One of the last social affairs for which she was hostess was the delightful wedding reception when granddaughter Betty became the bride of Harold Bacon. Admiral Moyer arrived by plane from his home in Salida, California Tuesday. His daughter Betty arrived Wednesday. This (Thursday) afternoon at 1:30 o’clock funeral services will be held in the Eikenberry funeral home with Mr. Lloyd Dalquist of the Presbyterian 'church officiating. Interment will be made in the Masonic cemetery.

Delphi Citizen February 12, 1953