Laguna surveyor Alan Clark dies

Alan B. Clark, of Laguna Beach, died Aug. 4 of a heart attack. He

was 71.

Mr. Clark was a licensed land surveyor. He had a business in

Laguna for 42 years. His associate surveyor of 40 years, Larry

Gardner, will continue the business.

Mr. Clark was born in Ohio to Marcia Carolyn and Joseph Anthony

Clark. He had one sister, Janet, who is a retired teacher from the

Long Beach Unified School District.

Mr. Clark graduated from Southside High School, Rockville Centre

in Long Beach, N.Y. He attended Stevens Institute of Technology and

graduated from Pennsylvania State University in the top two

percentile. He continued his studies at U.S.C.

He served in the Army during the Korean Way and was stationed

overseas in Germany as a high-speed radio code operator.

Mr. Clark married his wife, Ruth, in 1959. They lived in

Capistrano Beach with her two children from a previous marriage.

Their daughter, Cheryl, was born in 1961.

Mr. Clark was a member of many historic societies including the

American Legion and the Veterans of Foreign Wars. He was an avid

reader and his other interests included chess, golf and shooting

pool.

He was one of the old-time “Lagunatics.”

He is survived by his wife, Ruth; daughter Cheryl Ann Clark and

her husband, Vincent Linday; daughter Cathryne Irwin her husband

James Mitchell; son Scott McDonald; grandchildren Siena and

Gabriella, Zareth, Katie, Casey and Tanya; sister Janet Clark Ashmore

of Huntington Beach; niece Janine Gosa; nephew David Jordan; and

cousin Leonard Adams of Chicago.

A memorial service will be at 1:30 p.m. Sept. 8 at McCormick

Mortuary, 1795 Laguna Canyon Road. The reception will follow at Cedar

Creek Inn, 384 Forest Ave.