Origins

I was born in 1963 in San Antonio, Texas. My mother, Ann, died of cancer on December 26, 1978. My parents married in 1957, I think. They met at the University of Arizona in the mid-1950s. My father, Worthy L. Clark, received a degree in Agronomy from the University of Arizona. My mother didn't graduate from college. My mother and father divorced in about 1973, and my mother married Les Elgart, a well-known big band leader. Ann and Les divorced in 1977. My mother, Mara Ann Landry (maiden name) was born November 29, 1936 in Lake Charles, Louisiana. My father lived in Converse, Texas with his wife Barbara. Both are now dead.