Mr. Clark Anderson Huddleston
October 18, 1916 ~ December 12, 2012
Marietta Southern Cremations & Funerals
CLARK HUDDLESTON
Clark Anderson Huddleston, age 96, of Sandy Springs, GA died December 12, 2012. He was born in Hamilton, Texas on October 18, 1916. He is survived by his wife of 71 years, Margaret Hagan Huddleston.
Other survivors include: daughters and sons-in-law, Lynn and Jim Adcock, Sue and Mackie Hawkins; grandsons; Alan (Diane) Adcock, David (Alexis) Adcock and Scott Hawkins; granddaughter: Stephanie (Stephen) Watts; great-grandchildren: Travis, Emerson and Eliot Adcock, Elizabeth Watts.
Clark lived in Goldthwaite and Hamilton, Texas during his childhood. He moved to Dallas, Texas after high school.
Clark was a Prisoner of War in WWII. He was in Stalag Luft I in Barth, Germany for 15 months after the B-17 plane he was piloting was shot down near Oldenburg, Germany.
He was Treasurer of Bowles & Edens, a utility supply company until his retirement. Clark lived in Texas until moving to Georgia in 2004.
In lieu of flowers memorial gifts can be made to First Baptist Church, 710 Mimosa Blvd., Roswell, GA 30075.
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The staff of Southern Cremations and Funerals at Cheatham Hill wish to express our sincere condolences to the Huddleston family.
Both Mr. and Mrs. Huddleston were very helpful to me when I was transferred to Texas while I waited three months for my wife and kids to tb able to join me. Mr. Huddleston Will be missed by all that knew him. God bless, Al Temples
Your in our thoughts and prayers.
Just continue to remember all the good times and memories you have shared with your mom and dad through out your years together.
with Love to you,
Beverly & Doug
Know that you are in our thoughts and prayers during this time of sorrow. May your many wonderful memories be a comfort to each of you.
Love,
Martha and Tom
May the Lord receive Clark with open arms and a loving heart. He deserves that.
God Bless his family. Thoughts and prayers
Michaelle
We are very sorry to hear about your loss. Our hearts and prayers are with your entire family.
When I first went to work for Mr. Huddleston at Bowles & Edens, he told my good friend, Don Cook, that I was the silliest kid he had ever met. He not only put up with me being silly for the next 11 years, but taught me many valuable lessons about business and life. I looked up to him as my mentor. I respected his kindness and great humor.
I remember going to him for permission to buy a large order of copper tubing. When he asked me why I needed to place the order, I replied, You know Mr. Huddleston, you can’t sell from an empty wagon. His reply was, That is true young fellow’ but you can sure load a wagon down to where the mule can’t pull it.
I can remember, watching him contemplate situations. He had a habit of opening his desk drawer and picking up a rubber band and began stretching it. Finally the rubber band would slip off his finger and sail across the office. Without hesitation, he would open his desk drawer and get another rubber band. We always kidded that we knew how hard he had been thinking, by the number of rubber bands in his office.
I was glad to have the honor to tell him about how much I owed him for my success in business and life.
Bowles and Edens was like family to me and leaving them was the hardest thing I ever had to do. I loved all the people there and most especially Mr. Huddleston. I will miss him and consider myself the luckiest man on earth to have had the opportunity to know him.
Thank you for allowing me to share my love for him.
David Neathery
My dad was Jim Bowles. I grew up knowing Clark and visiting with him when I would go to daddy’s office! He was a kind and gentle man. And he not only worked for my, he was my dad’s good friend. I am so glad you put this in the Dallas paper. Please give my best to Margaret.
Janie Bowles Means Gilmore
Our thoughts and prayers are with you! I have such fond memories of Clark in the house on Northhaven!
Clark was so kind & good to all of us Troy children when he lived next door to us on Marquita right after the war. Margaret & her mother & dad were so sweet to us too.
Love, Martha Troy Ribelin
I went to work for B&E in March 1963 and worked there until 1966. I came back in 1970 and then went with Tom Adrian when he and Mr. Griffith bought the B&E equipment co. I so admired Mr. Huddleston, and all that he taught me about accounting. He would visit us at A&G and was always such a gentleman. The last time I saw him was at Helen Shaw’s funeral and he was the same as when I first met him in 1963. Will always remember his smile.