George S. Clark Fatally Injured In Texas Crash

Stadium Hills Golf Course Proprietor Was War Veteran
George Sawyer Clark, 49, of 217 Observatory St., who was well-known as the proprietor and manager of the Stadium Hills golf course, died Christmas morning in Edinburg, Tex., as the result of an automobile accident in which he suffered a brain concussion. The accident occurred on Friday, and Mr. Clark died the following day in the hospital without regaining consciousness.
Mr. Clark owned a retail hardware business in Edinburg and was there conferring with his store manager, Nyal Betts. He was driving the Betts family to their home when his car failed to make a sharp turn. One of the Betts children suffered a broken leg in the accident, but two other children escaped unhurt.
Mr. Clark was born in 1894 in Ann Arbor, the son of the late Dr. Orton H. Clark and Nellie Sawyer Clark of Kalamazoo and Ann Arbor. He was a nephew of Dr. Walter H. Sawyer of Hillsdale who for 25 years was a member of the University board of regents.
He was a graduate of Michigan State College in the class of 1917 and was a member of Phi Delta Theta fraternity. During the first World War he served as a first lieutenant in the Air Force and fought in France as a flight commander. He received the Distinguished Service Cross and was credited with having brought down the last German plane officially shot down during the war.
He is survived by his wife, Doris, and a daughter, Roberta, and by a brother, Orton Horace Clark of Ann Arbor.
Private funeral services will be held at 2 o'clock Tuesday at the Staffan funeral home with burial in Oak Park cemetery at Grass Lake.