Mary Joyce Booth-Clarke

Obituary For Mary Joyce Booth-Clarke

Mary Joyce Booth-Clarke was born November 21,1960, in Hattiesburg, Mississippi, to the late Joseph and Eris Booth.

Mary was a resident of Fort Pierce, Florida, for many years after relocating from Mississippi during her childhood. She was what most people refer to as a “Big Mama”, she enjoyed watching after babies, you can guarantee if she watched your baby that baby was loved, feed, and cared for as if she was raising her own. She was a great cook, a great sister, an excellent wife and mother, but an even better grandmother. To know her was to love her. Her grandchildren were the number one source to her joy.

On Friday, June 26,2020, Mary Booth Clarke answered the Lord’s call to come home, her work here on Earth has been completed. She was preceded in death by her parents, Joseph and Eris Booth; sisters, Sarah Ann Noel, and Brenda Sue Booth-Papageorge; nephew, Isaac G. Booth; grandfathers, Lowsie Booth and Frankie Dixon; grandmother Sarah Booth and Versie Dixon.

Those left to cherish the precious memories of Mary are her husband, Ranford Clarke of Fort Pierce, Florida; daughter, Barbara (James) Harrington of Columbus, Georgia; grandchildren, Senterra and Sierra Grier, Jamal and Jamesha Harrington of Columbus, Georgia; great-grandchildren, Jayden and Elias Grier of Columbus, Georgia; siblings, JoAnn Smiley of Fort Pierce, Florida, Silvann (Gordon) Bryant of Atlanta, Georgia, Lynn Booth of Fort Pierce, Florida, Billy (Gloria) Booth of Fort Pierce, Florida, Linda (Donald) Smith of Port Saint Lucie, Florida, Pamela Booth of Port Saint Lucie, Florida, Nathaniel (Jackie) Booth of Fort Pierce, Florida, and Monica Booth of Fort Pierce, Florida; aunt, Berdina Lee of Moselle, Mississippi; and a host of nieces, nephews, and other relatives and friends who will miss her dearly.

Public visitation for Mary Booth-Clarke will take place on Friday, July 10, 2020 by way of our drive-thru in the rear of Stone Brothers Funeral Home in Fort Pierce, FL between the hours of 4:00pm and 7:00pm. A celebration of her life will take place on Saturday, July 10, 2020 at 11:00am at Immanuel Full Gospel Baptist Church in Fort Pierce, FL. Burial will immediately follow in Riverview Memorial Park in Fort Pierce, FL.

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