2006
Paul W. Clarke, 93, a retired official with the Treasury Department's Office of the Comptroller of the Currency, died May 12 at
Carriage Hill Nursing Home in Bethesda. He had pancreatic cancer.
Mr. Clarke was born in Le Roy, N.Y., and raised in Washington, where he graduated from McKinley Technology High School
and in the 1920s won a city championship golf tournament for caddies.
After serving in the Army Air Forces during World War II, he joined the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency as an assistant
bank examiner. He held other positions at the OCC before retiring in 1982 as director of internal operations.
Mr. Clarke was active in Masonic organizations over the years. He was a past master of East Gate Lodge No. 34 in Takoma Park
and a member of the William R. Singleton Chapter No. 4 of the Royal Arch Masons, the Scottish Rite and the Almas Shriners, all
in Washington.
He was also an award-winning flower arranger and a lifetime member of the National Capital Dahlia Society.
For many years, Mr. Clarke lived in the Bannockburn community of Bethesda and served on boards and committees of what is
now Church In Bethesda. He moved to Asbury Methodist Village in Gaithersburg in 1999.
His wife of 50 years, Nellie Edna Clarke, died in 1987. His second wife, Nina Margaret Hewell, died in 1999. They had been
married for three years.
Survivors include a son from his first marriage, Gary Clarke of Bethesda; a sister; three grandchildren; and three
great-grandchildren.