Edythe Maxey Clark

Edythe Lee Maxey was born in Boston, Massachusetts, but moved with her widowed mother to Washington, D.C. in 1934. After graduation from Woodrow Wilson High School, Edythe attended Temple Secretarial School and during World War II held several jobs, principally as a secretary with the Automotive Safety Foundation. In 1946 she married Eugene Evans Clark, a graduate of the University of Maryland and George Washington University. In 1951 Gene was assigned as Press Officer at the American Embassy in London …