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Susan
Elizabeth
Clark
Susan
Elizabeth
Clark of The
Pink House
in West
Barnet VT
succumbed to
the cancer
she has been
valiantly
fighting
since 2012
on February
20, 2020.
Ms. Clark
was born on
March 30,
1955 in
Cambridge
NY, the
daughter of
Peter Henry
Clark and
Joyce
(Robertson)
Clark who
predeceased
her in 1986
and 2010
respectively.
She
graduated
from
Cambridge
Central
School in
1973 and
went on to
attend SUNY
Geneseo and
Purdue
University,
where she
received her
M. ED in
1977. After
living and
working in
Indiana for
several
years, Susan
returned to
the
northeast
and landed a
one year
position
with the
Department
of
Employment
and Training
in St.
Johnsbury VT
before
moving on to
become the
Director of
Social
Services at
the St.
Johnsbury
Convalescent
Center,
where she
worked for
four years
before
taking a job
as an
Outreach
Counselor
for the
Vermont
Student
Assistance
Corporation
in 1986. Ms.
Clark served
multiple
schools and
students
throughout
the north
country of
VT and NH
before
leaving VSAC
in 2000 to
become the
Director of
Guidance at
Woodsville
High School
in
Woodsville
NH. She
retired from
WHS in June
of 2016.
Susan
refurbished
the Hazen
and Florence
Mitchell
farm on
Gaskell Hill
in West
Burke VT
before
moving to
West Barnet
in 1997. She
eventually
settled in a
small cape
on the
corner of
West Main
Street and
Old West
Road that
she
delighted in
painting
pink in
2013. She
became known
as the
“teapot
lady”
because of
her
extensive
collection
of teapots
that
overflowed
every room
in her
house, and
as the
village
gardener,
maintaining
colorful
plantings
and flower
boxes around
the village
center. Her
greatest
pleasure
came from
running into
or reading
about former
students and
sharing in
their
successes.
She is
survived by
a much-loved
son Peter
Henry Ryan
of White
River
Junction
VT., two
sisters,
Nancy Krauss
of Cambridge
NY and Sally
Clark of
Queensbury
NY, a nephew
Clark
Sheldon of
Burlington
VT, and a
niece Erin
Cummings of
St. Cloud
FL. She will
miss and be
missed by
several dear
friends, in
particular:
her
colleague at
WHS Shauna
Kimball of
North
Haverhill
NH,
long-term
BFF Nancy
Davis of
Troy NY,
Barbara
Sobtzick
Harrington
of Rochester
NY, and
Donna
Waelter of
Ryegate VT.
In lieu of
flowers,
cards, or
other
condolences,
Susan has
requested
that tax
deductible
donations be
made in her
name to the
village of
West Barnet
via memorial
contributions
to to Nancy
Bishop,
Treasurer,
Barnet Fire
District #5,
44 Stevenson
Rd, Barnet
VT so that
good works
can continue
in the
community
that she
came to call
home.
There will
be no
service or
calling
hours,
instead
family and
friends will
host an
extensive
tea party
and estate
sale in
Susan's
honor at her
home in West
Barnet to
which all
are invited
to share
stories or
buy memorial
trinkets
with the
date and
times to be
announced.
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