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Clark had lived in Truth or Consequences for the past eight years with her only child, 15year-old Hot Springs High School sophomore Lindsay Hauser. The teen sat among family members and Clark's fiance, state police officer Santiago Hernandez, in the front row during the service.

Clark's body was cremated and the remains were in an urn surr
ounded by flowers and family photographs on a table at the nearly full civic center, which can seat 1,500. The display included a poem by Clark's daughter, beginning, "You're the one, the one for me, the one that cares..."

A triangularly folded American flag, stars up, sat in front of the urn. Flags around town flew at half-staff.

Lt. Gov. Walter Bradley was among people attending the gathering Wednesday. Sierra County Sheriff Terry Byers sat quietly in the back of the room.

Fellow Deputy Peter Bowidowicz recalled many talks with Clark over morning decaf.

"As a deputy she was meticulous, energetic, thorough, but most of all a professional. Her main concern was to give the best law enforcement, no matter the job, the individual, the race, the stature, the significance or the relation.

"Folks, if you got Kelly Clark as an investigator, you got the best," said Bowidowicz.

He added: "What gives me comfort is that Kelly was a Christian, and she w
alked the talk. I know as a community we loved Kelly Clark."

Another memorial and Honor Guard service was set this morning at Hot Springs High School football stadium, followed by a processional through nearby Williamsburg and back through town.

Clark, an Indiana native, began working at the Sierra County jail in September 1990. The following June she was promoted to deputy sheriff, and she was Sierra County's only female on an 11-deputy force.

Clark left Truth or Consequences about 1 p.m. March 20 to drive inmate Michael Archuleta, 20, to the Western New Mexico Correctional Facility in Grants. Around 4 p.m., Archuleta somehow got through the sliding Plexiglas divider between the patrol car's front and back seats and got control of Clark's gun, a .40-caliber semiautomatic Glock pistol, state police said.

After the shooting, Archuleta used Clark's gun to commandeer another passing car on Interstate 40, officers said. He was arrested shortly thereafter when
he stopped to make a phone call near a convenience store.

Archuleta had been jailed in Truth or Consequences on charges of receiving a stolen vehicle and assault with a deadly weapon. He now faces an open count of murder, two counts of assault with intent to commit a violent felony, escape and disarming a peace officer.

Obituary also in Columbia City Post March 9, 1999, Pg 5. ">

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