Barbara Clark Site Contributor
MADISON – Barbara J. Clark, age 82, passed away Thursday, Jan. 7, 2021, at Four Winds Manor.
Barbara Jean Pyle was born on Dec. 30, 1938, in Maud, Okla., and grew up in rural Oklahoma. She met her husband, Orville V. Clark, as a teenager while waitressing at a café near Oklahoma University, where he was a student. They married and had their son, Randell V. Clark. The family moved several times, from Oklahoma City to State College, Pa., to Missoula, Mont., until Orville landed his second professorship position at UW Green Bay, in 1970.
Barbara worked for many years volunteering at the Buy and Sell Shop on Green Bay’s campus. In restocking the student shop, she developed her lifelong passion for bargain hunting and rummage sales. Her enjoyment for bargain hunting and for gardening continued into her later years. After a divorce, she moved to Madison to be near her son, and worked many years as a Shopko sales associate, in