On New Year’s Day of this year, members of the Bethel community say they lost a local memorable personality.

That's when they lost Lucy Mae Clark, a loyal employee at Frank’s Grocery who faithfully greeted area residents in the community store for over 30 years with her feisty, teasing and often love/hate spirited personality.

“With Lucy, if she was on your good side, she would be calling you ‘Honey’ but, if she was on your bad side, she would be calling you, well, a lot more colorful names,” said Harold Mashburn, who worked alongside Clark.

Clark died from pneumonia at 91 years old.

When locals around Frank’s Grocery heard of Clark’s passing, they say they were deeply saddened, but couldn’t help but grin through their tears thinking about funny times. According to area residents, ...