per son’s OBIT her maiden name looks like BARNES
OBIT ArthurLark1962.pdf
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The Times-Tribune (Scranton, Pennsylvania)
04 May 1962, Fri
Page 8
Arthur Lark, 66, Electrician, Dies
Arthur Lark, 66 of 607 Hallstead St, Dickson City, and electrician contractor, died yesterday in Mid-Valley Hospital after and illness.
Born in Dickson City, son of the late John and Emily Barnes Lark, he was employed by Hudson Coal Co as an electrician and operated an electrical contracting business in the MId-Valley for 40 years.
Mr Lark was a member of Dickson City Primitive Methodist Church and was the oldest member of Eagle Hose Co 1, Dickson City. He was also a member of Kingsbury Lodge 466, Free and Accepted Masons, Olyphant.
Surviving are his wife, the former Valeda Thomas of Blakely,
a son, Jack, Dickson City;
3 daughters: Mrs Richard Mellow, Dickson City; Mrs Melvin Smith, Mill City; and Mrs Joseph Kronko, Clak’s Summit;
a sister, Mrs Bert Barrow, Wyandotte, Mich;
17 grandchildren and a nephew.
The funeral will be Monday at 2pm from the Eynon Funeral Home, 17 Hillcrest Dr, Dickson City, with Rev Elwin Murphy, Dickson City Primitive Methodist Church, officiating. Interment Primitive Methodist Cemetery, Dickson City. Kingsbury Lodge will conduct services Sunday at 8 pm in the funeral home. Friends may call tonight from 7-10 pm and thereafter from 2-4 and 7-10pm.

1920FCI United States Federal Census; Pennsylvania Lackawanna Dickson City Ward 2 District 0035; image 24 of 27 @ancestry
Source Citation: Year: 1920; Census Place: Dickson City Ward 2, Lackawanna, Pennsylvania; Roll: T625_1576; Page: 12B; Enumeration District: 35
Source Information: Ancestry.com. 1920 United States Federal Census [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2010. Images reproduced by FamilySearch.
Home in 1920: Dickson City Ward 2, Lackawanna, Pennsylvania
Street: Albert St.
Residence Date: 1920
Household Members:
Emily Lark 45 widow imm 1884
Arthur Lark 23 electric plant
Valeda Lark 22
Vivian Lark 2 granddaughter

1930FCI United States Federal Census; Pennsylvania Lackawanna Dickson City District 0125; image 22 of 38 @ancestry
Source Citation: Year: 1930; Census Place: Dickson City, Lackawanna, Pennsylvania; Page: 11B; Enumeration District: 0125; FHL microfilm: 2341783
Source Information: Ancestry.com. 1930 United States Federal Census [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2002.
Original data: United States of America, Bureau of the Census. Fifteenth Census of the United States, 1930. Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 1930. T626, 2,667 rolls.
Home in 1930: Dickson City, Lackawanna, Pennsylvania, USA
Street address: Hallstead
Ward of City: 1
House Number: 607
Dwelling Number: 195
Family Number: 221
Household Members:
Auther Lark 33 abt 1897 PA laborer coal mine
Valedia Lark 31
Emily Lark 8 abt 1922 PA
Audrey Lark 6 abt 1924 PA
Jack Lark 2 abt 1928 PA
Bettylou Lark 0 abt 1930 PA
Emily Lark 56 abt 1874 widow MIL imm 1886