Mary Ann (Kuhlman) Clarke of Manassas was called home to God after a well lived 83 years following a brief battle with metastatic renal cancer. She was surrounded by family and friends until the end. She was born in 1935 in St Louis, MO, where she grew up working at her dad’s grocery stores. She was a graduate of St Louis University School of Nursing. She spent her early career as head operating room nurse at Cardinal Glennon Hospital for Children in St Louis before she and her young growing family relocated to Virginia in 1968. She retired from full time nursing to expand and raise her large brood of 8 and over the years worked as a special needs school bus driver, restaurateur, caterer, and spent a large portion of her time volunteering and giving back to the community.

She was preceded in death by her husband, Jerry Clarke, and daughter, Ann Clarke Dollard (Mike). She is survived by her children David Clarke, Joan-Clarke Beahm (Mark), Daniel Clarke, Paul Clarke (Catherine), Joseph Clarke (Michael), Elizabeth Kelso (Andrew), and Jennifer Layden (Joe), grandchildren Michael Clarke (Alicia), Markas Beahm, Taylor Beahm, namesake Mary Elise Beahm, Stephanie Dollard, Jackson Kelso, Leah Kelso, Carter Layden, Hiroya Tonoshita, Kate Fajardo, and one revered great grandson, Alexander Clarke.