MADRID – Grace Ethel Worthley Clark, 93, passed away early Saturday morning, March 26, in Madrid.

She was born April 7, 1911, on the Mile Square, Avon. She was the daughter of Harold W. and Cassandra Morrison Worthley. She lived most of her life in the Avon, Phillips and Dixfield areas. Grace graduated from Phillips High School in 1928.

She married Birchel B. Rollins in Madrid on Nov. 28, 1928. He passed away in March 1936.

On Sept. 25, 1943, she married Harry Hinds in Phillips, who predeceased her.

On April 15, 1975, she married Gregory Clark in Portland, who passed away in April 1990.

Widowed in 1936, at age 25, she worked as a dressmaker and homemaker before going to work at the Berth Foster Dixfield Mill in Phillips. She made snap clothespins there for 10 years, transferring to The Diamond Match in Dixfield when the mill in Phillips closed. She worked there for 22 years before retiring in 1974.

After retirement, she enjoyed traveling to Florida every winter with her husband, Greg. She enjoyed leading the exercise class at the park, working out at the gym, playing shuffleboard, hiking, dancing, playing cards, board games, and doing arts and crafts.

She belonged to the Phillips Baptist Young Women’s Guild, the Hope Rebekah Lodge, Phillips and Purity Rebekah Lodge, Mexico and Sherburne Chapter Eastern Star, Phillips, and Mt. Zircon Chapter Eastern Star, Rumford. She was a 50-year plus member of both the Rebekah and Eastern Star. She was also a member of the Dixfield Extension, the Dixfield Senior Citizens and the Dixfield Historical Society.

She loved the outdoors, gardening, skiing, skating, snow-shoeing, and snowmobiling. She especially enjoyed skiing and fishing with her grandchildren. She also loved to write poems and skits for any occasion.

She is survived by her three daughters and their husbands; Carolyn and Richard Paul of Farmington, Joanne and Malcolm Webber and Anita and Carl Beu of Madrid; three stepsons, David Clark of Florida, Doug and Bruce Clark of Dixfield; 16 grandchildren; eight step-grandchildren; 32 great-grandchildren; and 15 great-great-grandchildren; two sister-in-laws; Geneva and Matie Worthley; and many nieces and nephews.

She was predeceased by two sons, Frank C. and Basil B. Rollins; two sisters, Louise Dyar and Dorothy Worthley; three brothers, Herbert, James and George Worthley; one stepson, Sherwin Hinds; four grandchildren; and one great-grandchild.