Ada Belle

Clark

Ada Belle Clark, 99, longtime resident of Sweetwater, passed away Wednesday, July 8, 2026, at Sweetwater Healthcare Nursing & Rehab. Services will be at 10:00 A.M. Saturday, July 11, 20216 in McCoy Chapel of Memories with Rev. Mike Coffee and Rev. Larry Holder officiating. Interment will follow at Rose Hill Cemetery in Merkel, Texas directed by McCoy Funeral Home. There will be a family visitation Friday evening from 5 P.M. to 7 P.M. at McCoy Funeral Home.

Ada Belle was born March 31, 1927 in Noodle, Jones County, Texas to William Arthur and Tommie Jewel (Jinkens) Steele. She has lived in Sweetwater since 1935. She married Jasper Dee Clark March 8, 1947 in Sweetwater, Texas.  He preceded her in death November 5, 1999. Ada Belle was named "Outstanding Female Citizen of  Sweetwater in 2013. She was secretary/treasurer of Highland Heights United Methodist Church from  January 1990 to May 2019. She was Director/Treasurer of Women's Resources/Crisis Pregnancy Center from early 2000 to July 2019. She was a member of the Laureate Epsilan Beta Chapter of Beta Sigma Phi (Sorority) and was a very active member of The Emmaus Community. Ada Belle, was a member of Highland Heights United Methodist Church and now at Nolan Methodist Church.

She is survived by two daughters, Deena Kirkpatrick of Sweetwater, TX, Tere Parsons and husband Reese of Blackwell, Texas, two granddaughters, Melisa Fredrick and husband Bill of Blackwell, Texas, and Tina Allen and Jody Jones of Sweetwater, Texas, two grandsons, Dusty Martin and wife Michelle of Port Charlotte, Florida, and Dylan Kirkpatrick of Sweetwater, Texas, and also four bonus grandchildren, Chris Parsons, Tammy Capps, Virgil Martin, Jr., Lisa Martin, several great grandchildren and great great grandchildren,

She was preceded in death by her husband, her parents, and two sisters, Mona Mattie Steele and Maurine Stracener.

Pallbearers will be Dennis Kiker, Ronnie Jackson, Virgil Martin Jr., Brad Street, Dr. Blayne Street, Charlie Stracener