NETA JOYCE CLARK ERICKSON

Neta Joyce Clark Erickson, 78, of San Angelo died December 30, 2007, at Triumph Hospital. Funeral services will be at 10 a.m. Wednesday, January 2, 2008, in the Robert Massie Riverside Chapel with Paul Shero officiating. Family visitation will be from 6 to 7:30 p.m. on Tuesday, January 1, 2008, at Robert Massie Funeral Home. Interment will be at 5 p.m. on Wednesday, January 2, 2008, in Clifton Cemetery located in Clifton, TX. Neta was born January 12, 1929, in Haskell County to Jim and Christine Clark. She grew up in Haskell County and moved to Loop, when she was nine, where she graduated from high school. She attended San Angelo Junior College before transferring to Texas Tech where she graduated with a home economics degree. She taught school at O'Brien and Dawson School in Welch, where she met and married Thilman Eugene Erickson in Loop on July 19, 1958. They both taught at Loop one year before Thilman was hired at Christoval in the fall of 1959. In the years that followed she was a loving mother and homemaker. In the fall of 1981 she began working at the Bridal Boutique and later worked at Korona Fabrics. In the fall of 1986 upon his retirement they moved to San Angelo. She was a devoted wife, mother and grandmother. She enjoyed grandchildren's birthday parties, as well as watching their sport games, dance recitals, plays, band competition, drumline performances and choir performances. She liked sewing for herself and her grandchildren. She enjoyed family reunions and get-togethers as well as genealogy including discovering family gravesite and cemeteries. She enjoyed working in her flower beds and especially her bluebonnets. A hobby of hers was collecting unique turtles of which she had about 20. She always sent cards to people for a variety of reasons and always for her family's birthdays and anniversaries. She was a longtime member of Southgate Church of Christ. Neta was preceded in death by her husband, Thilman, her parents, her brother Darrel Clark and two granddaughters, Trena Jo Baugh and Allison Ruth Baugh. Left with precious memories are her two daughters and sons-in-law, Tresa and Craig Davis of Plano and Dena and Tim Baugh of Greenwood, a son, Ennis Erickson of Valera, four grandchildren, Marc Davis of Plano, Laura Anastasio and husband John of Midland, Eric and Breann Baugh of Greenwood, sisters Glenda Smith and husband Homer of Loop, Earlene Wright of Shallowater, brothers Raburn Clark of Skellytown and Dwain Clark of Mena, Arkansas, sisters-in-law Linda Derrick of Kermit and Amie Laurence of Valley Mills and numerous nieces, nephews and cousins. The family asks memorials be sent to Christoval School Library or a favorite charity.