David B. Clark bequeathed his collection of more than 125 gravestone rubbings to MOCA. They are  are shared on the MOCA members website as historical records that capture details which may now be weathered, eroded, or difficult to read. Gravestone rubbing was once a commonly accepted method for recording cemetery art and inscriptions. Today, however, preservation professionals generally discourage gravestone rubbing, as the process can damage fragile, weathered, or unstable stones. For this reason, the Maine Old Cemetery Association encourages non-contact documentation methods, such as photography, careful transcription, and GPS-based cemetery recording.

Obituary for David Bryant Clark
May 17, 1941 ~ November 30, 2015

David B. Clark Sr. was a wonderful human being with an off-beat sense of humor and an amazing ability to help others.

He was born in Long Beach, California on May 17, 1941, and graduated from Artesia High School in 1958. He served in the United States Marine Corps from 1959 to 1963 where he first began working with computers.

David moved to Maine in his 20s and worked various jobs, both with his hands and with computers.

He married wife Virginia on December 29, 1966 on a stormy December day and and they were married for 44 years before she predeceased him four years ago. They spent many years in Hallowell where he served on the fire department for nearly 20 years, several as Captain and finally as Acting Chief. He and Ginny were active in the community, sold antiques and spent many mealtimes with friends at Slate's.

David's life was full of adventure. He and Ginny loved to travel and often took their granddaughter Kate along. David retired from the Maine Department of Labor after a career of more than 20 years.

Over his life he pursued many interests including, skin diving, chess, muzzle loading rifles, gravestone rubbings, travel, volunteering and, as anyone who ever met him would know, talking with folks... a lot.

He was an active member of Maine Old Cemetery Association for over 40 years and was a devoted volunteer for the Maine Cancer Society's Road to Recovery Program. Always ready to help anyone in need, David drove many cancer patients from all over central Maine to treatments that they would not otherwise be able to receive, logging over 30,000 miles as a tribute to his wife who died of cancer in 2011.

Published by Central Maine from Jan. 17 to Jan. 18, 2016.