Last Clack child dies, museum sends condolences

The board of the H. Earl Clack Memorial Museum heard Monday about the death of the last surviving child of the Havre businessman for whom the museum is named, and the condolences the museum is sending to the family.

Board Chair Judi Dritshulas said she had already contacted the family of Margaret Clack Askew Hood Cooper of Memphis, Tennessee, to offer the board’s sympathy.

Cooper, born in in Havre Oct. 8, 1911, to H. Earl and Margaret Turner Clack, died Sept. 28, 10 days before her 103rd birthday.

Elaine Morse of the museum’s funding foundation said its board would be sending a card to the family after its next meeting.

Cooper was one of six children born to the pioneering Havre couple, whose business interests including in retail, grain elevators, petroleum, gas stations, hotels and housing rentals stretched across the region.

She moved to Memphis in 1937 when she married Charles Deshler "Mose" Askew, whom she met on a blind date while visiting a cousin in Memphis in 1936, her online obituary says.

Twice widowed, she is survived by her third husband, Robert. F. Cooper Jr., and numerous children, grandchildren and great-grandchildren.