By: Mike Glover
In 1921 Warren G. Harding was president of the United States. There was talk of building what is now known as Yankee Stadium and Ed Clark was born, and at 100 years old Ed Clark has lived a full life.
Married to his wife Bonnie for 75 years before her passing, he was the fire chief at the Naval Air Station in Shawnee, until in 1946 when he became an Oklahoma City police officer.
“On the beat you were walking we didn’t have radios. You had to walk down to the corner, and they had a light post down there with a telephone on it and you would call in once an hour to tell them you were still alive, I guess,” said Clark.