Written by Los Altos Town Crier Report
Captain Edward Donald Clark, age 86, passed peacefully in his Los Altos, California home on August, 22, 2020. He was proceeded to his heavenly estate by his devoted wife, Barbara Jean DuBois, and his parents, Edward Clark and Mary Boshek. With fondness, Edward, recalled his experiences during the war years when he and his Uncle Andrew Boshek listened to the radio from the attic late at night hoping to catch the communications from pilots as they traveled the skies near his home in Scranton PA. It was these and other experiences shared about his Uncle Albert Boshek, one of the first great aviators in American history, that led Edward to pursue a career in aviation, much to his mother’s disliking. Traveling a great distance by foot, Edward worked many hours at a local ice cream soda shop the modest earnings from, along with the proceeds from sales at the hobby shop he ran out of his parent’s home, were promp