Clark was the eldest child of William Clark Chandler(3/17/1883-7/18/1949) and Clara Bell Darnell Chandler(4/26/1887-11/29/1959). He had four other known siblings and they are in the order of their birth;
Elizabeth Alice Chandler Padgett(1913-1998)
William Howard Chandler(1921-1966)
Earl Chandler(1923-2002)
Violet Myree Chandler Skipper(1928-2008)
Clark was born in northern Alabama(Birmingham). In 1918, when a young man, he was living with his family in Coaling, Tuscaloosa County, Alabama. His father was operating a saw mill near there. He grew up most of his early years in Alabama. The family traveled around from saw mill to saw mill. Clark learned this business from his father. His grandfather and great grandfather, and great-great grandfather also did this work. Clark always liked automobiles and preferred to work on them. By 1930 the family had moved to Early County, Georgia where Clark`s father William had another saw mill job. At some point in the early 1930`s Clark started working at car mechanic shops. He came to Florida and worked as a mechanic and body man in DeFuniak Springs, Bonifay, and Marianna, Florida. It has just been brought to my attention(2016) that Clark had been married before in 1930-31 and had a daughter by this marriage. Don`t know many of the details and will not post them here yet to protect the relatives privacy. In 1932 in DeFuniak Springs he met Edith Alease Rogers and they where married on Oct. 18th in the same year. They had one child together Ralph Roger Clark Chandler(3/14/1934-3/17/2007). They separated in 1935 and Clark went back to Marianna for a time and Ralph lived with Edith and her family in DeFuniak. Several years later Clark made an attempt to get his son from his wife but it was unsuccessful as Vassie and the Rogers`s would have no part in this. Father said at some point Vassie went into the house and came out with a shotgun. An ugly situation occurred and they where threatened and told if they did not leave a killing was going to happen! Clark gave his young son Ralph a silver coin at this meeting. He officially divorced Edith in 1942 according to documents uncovered by Janie Light.
Clark was reportedly one of the best auto body men around and he helped start a family business called "Chandler and Sons" with his father and brothers in downtown Newnan, Georgia around 1939. They specialized in frame straightening and body work. It did well until the outbreak of WW II and then these business`s went down and they closed the doors. Clark married again to Marie Walker who had a child named Raymond Harris by another man before they got together. She was called "Big Marie" because of Clark`s little sister Myree.
Clark joined the Coast Guard and became an officer and trained soldiers in Mobile, Alabama for awhile during WW II. He was also an inspector of some kind. After the war he settled in Miami where he had been stationed, for a time, and eventually moved to Panama City, Florida.
Marie and Clark built a new house together on Bay Street where they lived for many years. Both houses that he lived in are still standing as of 2016. Here he grew many species of flowers and bushes when not involved with vehicle shops. He was also a part-time sailor and photographer and liked to take many photographs.
Clark was an amature designer or sorts and worked on a revolutionary metal cutting bit to slice through sheet metal. It was to help with auto body work and had various applications in the industry. He owned a vehicle shop right across the street from Bay High School in Panama City, Fla. according to Alton a part-time summer employee. Alton`s older brother had helped him with this invention. Here he worked on patenting this tool and went to Detroit, Michigan to try and sell it to make a lot of money. He had developed a heart condition by then and was mysteriously found dead in a house he rented outside Detroit. None of his heart medication was found in the home, at the time of his death which was suspicious. It was thought that it was removed by persons wanting to steal his invention. Nothing could be proven of coarse and his chance to make a lot of money was gone. My father Ralph Chandler was contacted after his death, in New Jersey, where our family was living, at the time, to see what could be done about what happened. My father had not been close to Clark and actually had only met and talked to him a few times in his life. Nobody`s pockets where deep enough to pursue the mess and there was very little to go on so nothing was done.
Clark was brought back to Florida and buried outside Panama City in Evergreen Memorial Cemetery. He is there with all his siblings and their wives and husbands.
Elizabeth Alice Chandler Padgett(1913-1998)
William Howard Chandler(1921-1966)
Earl Chandler(1923-2002)
Violet Myree Chandler Skipper(1928-2008)
Clark was born in northern Alabama(Birmingham). In 1918, when a young man, he was living with his family in Coaling, Tuscaloosa County, Alabama. His father was operating a saw mill near there. He grew up most of his early years in Alabama. The family traveled around from saw mill to saw mill. Clark learned this business from his father. His grandfather and great grandfather, and great-great grandfather also did this work. Clark always liked automobiles and preferred to work on them. By 1930 the family had moved to Early County, Georgia where Clark`s father William had another saw mill job. At some point in the early 1930`s Clark started working at car mechanic shops. He came to Florida and worked as a mechanic and body man in DeFuniak Springs, Bonifay, and Marianna, Florida. It has just been brought to my attention(2016) that Clark had been married before in 1930-31 and had a daughter by this marriage. Don`t know many of the details and will not post them here yet to protect the relatives privacy. In 1932 in DeFuniak Springs he met Edith Alease Rogers and they where married on Oct. 18th in the same year. They had one child together Ralph Roger Clark Chandler(3/14/1934-3/17/2007). They separated in 1935 and Clark went back to Marianna for a time and Ralph lived with Edith and her family in DeFuniak. Several years later Clark made an attempt to get his son from his wife but it was unsuccessful as Vassie and the Rogers`s would have no part in this. Father said at some point Vassie went into the house and came out with a shotgun. An ugly situation occurred and they where threatened and told if they did not leave a killing was going to happen! Clark gave his young son Ralph a silver coin at this meeting. He officially divorced Edith in 1942 according to documents uncovered by Janie Light.
Clark was reportedly one of the best auto body men around and he helped start a family business called "Chandler and Sons" with his father and brothers in downtown Newnan, Georgia around 1939. They specialized in frame straightening and body work. It did well until the outbreak of WW II and then these business`s went down and they closed the doors. Clark married again to Marie Walker who had a child named Raymond Harris by another man before they got together. She was called "Big Marie" because of Clark`s little sister Myree.
Clark joined the Coast Guard and became an officer and trained soldiers in Mobile, Alabama for awhile during WW II. He was also an inspector of some kind. After the war he settled in Miami where he had been stationed, for a time, and eventually moved to Panama City, Florida.
Marie and Clark built a new house together on Bay Street where they lived for many years. Both houses that he lived in are still standing as of 2016. Here he grew many species of flowers and bushes when not involved with vehicle shops. He was also a part-time sailor and photographer and liked to take many photographs.
Clark was an amature designer or sorts and worked on a revolutionary metal cutting bit to slice through sheet metal. It was to help with auto body work and had various applications in the industry. He owned a vehicle shop right across the street from Bay High School in Panama City, Fla. according to Alton a part-time summer employee. Alton`s older brother had helped him with this invention. Here he worked on patenting this tool and went to Detroit, Michigan to try and sell it to make a lot of money. He had developed a heart condition by then and was mysteriously found dead in a house he rented outside Detroit. None of his heart medication was found in the home, at the time of his death which was suspicious. It was thought that it was removed by persons wanting to steal his invention. Nothing could be proven of coarse and his chance to make a lot of money was gone. My father Ralph Chandler was contacted after his death, in New Jersey, where our family was living, at the time, to see what could be done about what happened. My father had not been close to Clark and actually had only met and talked to him a few times in his life. Nobody`s pockets where deep enough to pursue the mess and there was very little to go on so nothing was done.
Clark was brought back to Florida and buried outside Panama City in Evergreen Memorial Cemetery. He is there with all his siblings and their wives and husbands.
Clark was the eldest child of William Clark Chandler(3/17/1883-7/18/1949) and Clara Bell Darnell Chandler(4/26/1887-11/29/1959). He had four other known siblings and they are in the order of their birth;
Elizabeth Alice Chandler Padgett(1913-1998)
William Howard Chandler(1921-1966)
Earl Chandler(1923-2002)
Violet Myree Chandler Skipper(1928-2008)
Clark was born in northern Alabama(Birmingham). In 1918, when a young man, he was living with his family in Coaling, Tuscaloosa County, Alabama. His father was operating a saw mill near there. He grew up most of his early years in Alabama. The family traveled around from saw mill to saw mill. Clark learned this business from his father. His grandfather and great grandfather, and great-great grandfather also did this work. Clark always liked automobiles and preferred to work on them. By 1930 the family had moved to Early County, Georgia where Clark`s father William had another saw mill job. At some point in the early 1930`s Clark started working at car mechanic shops. He came to Florida and worked as a mechanic and body man in DeFuniak Springs, Bonifay, and Marianna, Florida. It has just been brought to my attention(2016) that Clark had been married before in 1930-31 and had a daughter by this marriage. Don`t know many of the details and will not post them here yet to protect the relatives privacy. In 1932 in DeFuniak Springs he met Edith Alease Rogers and they where married on Oct. 18th in the same year. They had one child together Ralph Roger Clark Chandler(3/14/1934-3/17/2007). They separated in 1935 and Clark went back to Marianna for a time and Ralph lived with Edith and her family in DeFuniak. Several years later Clark made an attempt to get his son from his wife but it was unsuccessful as Vassie and the Rogers`s would have no part in this. Father said at some point Vassie went into the house and came out with a shotgun. An ugly situation occurred and they where threatened and told if they did not leave a killing was going to happen! Clark gave his young son Ralph a silver coin at this meeting. He officially divorced Edith in 1942 according to documents uncovered by Janie Light.
Clark was reportedly one of the best auto body men around and he helped start a family business called "Chandler and Sons" with his father and brothers in downtown Newnan, Georgia around 1939. They specialized in frame straightening and body work. It did well until the outbreak of WW II and then these business`s went down and they closed the doors. Clark married again to Marie Walker who had a child named Raymond Harris by another man before they got together. She was called "Big Marie" because of Clark`s little sister Myree.
Clark joined the Coast Guard and became an officer and trained soldiers in Mobile, Alabama for awhile during WW II. He was also an inspector of some kind. After the war he settled in Miami where he had been stationed, for a time, and eventually moved to Panama City, Florida.
Marie and Clark built a new house together on Bay Street where they lived for many years. Both houses that he lived in are still standing as of 2016. Here he grew many species of flowers and bushes when not involved with vehicle shops. He was also a part-time sailor and photographer and liked to take many photographs.
Clark was an amature designer or sorts and worked on a revolutionary metal cutting bit to slice through sheet metal. It was to help with auto body work and had various applications in the industry. He owned a vehicle shop right across the street from Bay High School in Panama City, Fla. according to Alton a part-time summer employee. Alton`s older brother had helped him with this invention. Here he worked on patenting this tool and went to Detroit, Michigan to try and sell it to make a lot of money. He had developed a heart condition by then and was mysteriously found dead in a house he rented outside Detroit. None of his heart medication was found in the home, at the time of his death which was suspicious. It was thought that it was removed by persons wanting to steal his invention. Nothing could be proven of coarse and his chance to make a lot of money was gone. My father Ralph Chandler was contacted after his death, in New Jersey, where our family was living, at the time, to see what could be done about what happened. My father had not been close to Clark and actually had only met and talked to him a few times in his life. Nobody`s pockets where deep enough to pursue the mess and there was very little to go on so nothing was done.
Clark was brought back to Florida and buried outside Panama City in Evergreen Memorial Cemetery. He is there with all his siblings and their wives and husbands.
Elizabeth Alice Chandler Padgett(1913-1998)
William Howard Chandler(1921-1966)
Earl Chandler(1923-2002)
Violet Myree Chandler Skipper(1928-2008)
Clark was born in northern Alabama(Birmingham). In 1918, when a young man, he was living with his family in Coaling, Tuscaloosa County, Alabama. His father was operating a saw mill near there. He grew up most of his early years in Alabama. The family traveled around from saw mill to saw mill. Clark learned this business from his father. His grandfather and great grandfather, and great-great grandfather also did this work. Clark always liked automobiles and preferred to work on them. By 1930 the family had moved to Early County, Georgia where Clark`s father William had another saw mill job. At some point in the early 1930`s Clark started working at car mechanic shops. He came to Florida and worked as a mechanic and body man in DeFuniak Springs, Bonifay, and Marianna, Florida. It has just been brought to my attention(2016) that Clark had been married before in 1930-31 and had a daughter by this marriage. Don`t know many of the details and will not post them here yet to protect the relatives privacy. In 1932 in DeFuniak Springs he met Edith Alease Rogers and they where married on Oct. 18th in the same year. They had one child together Ralph Roger Clark Chandler(3/14/1934-3/17/2007). They separated in 1935 and Clark went back to Marianna for a time and Ralph lived with Edith and her family in DeFuniak. Several years later Clark made an attempt to get his son from his wife but it was unsuccessful as Vassie and the Rogers`s would have no part in this. Father said at some point Vassie went into the house and came out with a shotgun. An ugly situation occurred and they where threatened and told if they did not leave a killing was going to happen! Clark gave his young son Ralph a silver coin at this meeting. He officially divorced Edith in 1942 according to documents uncovered by Janie Light.
Clark was reportedly one of the best auto body men around and he helped start a family business called "Chandler and Sons" with his father and brothers in downtown Newnan, Georgia around 1939. They specialized in frame straightening and body work. It did well until the outbreak of WW II and then these business`s went down and they closed the doors. Clark married again to Marie Walker who had a child named Raymond Harris by another man before they got together. She was called "Big Marie" because of Clark`s little sister Myree.
Clark joined the Coast Guard and became an officer and trained soldiers in Mobile, Alabama for awhile during WW II. He was also an inspector of some kind. After the war he settled in Miami where he had been stationed, for a time, and eventually moved to Panama City, Florida.
Marie and Clark built a new house together on Bay Street where they lived for many years. Both houses that he lived in are still standing as of 2016. Here he grew many species of flowers and bushes when not involved with vehicle shops. He was also a part-time sailor and photographer and liked to take many photographs.
Clark was an amature designer or sorts and worked on a revolutionary metal cutting bit to slice through sheet metal. It was to help with auto body work and had various applications in the industry. He owned a vehicle shop right across the street from Bay High School in Panama City, Fla. according to Alton a part-time summer employee. Alton`s older brother had helped him with this invention. Here he worked on patenting this tool and went to Detroit, Michigan to try and sell it to make a lot of money. He had developed a heart condition by then and was mysteriously found dead in a house he rented outside Detroit. None of his heart medication was found in the home, at the time of his death which was suspicious. It was thought that it was removed by persons wanting to steal his invention. Nothing could be proven of coarse and his chance to make a lot of money was gone. My father Ralph Chandler was contacted after his death, in New Jersey, where our family was living, at the time, to see what could be done about what happened. My father had not been close to Clark and actually had only met and talked to him a few times in his life. Nobody`s pockets where deep enough to pursue the mess and there was very little to go on so nothing was done.
Clark was brought back to Florida and buried outside Panama City in Evergreen Memorial Cemetery. He is there with all his siblings and their wives and husbands.
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