Sara Clark Burns, formerly of Homer City, Indiana County, died Wednesday at Concordia Haven in Cabot after a brief illness.

Born Feb. 13, 1916, in Youngstown, Ohio, she was the daughter of Clarence S. and Georgia C. Brock.

She was a 1937 magna cum laude graduate of Geneva College, and after college, she taught three years in Sykesville, Jefferson County, before moving to Homer City in 1940.

After raising her family, she taught English and foreign languages at Homer-Center Junior Senior High School for 20 years and also was faculty sponsor of the student yearbook and directed many annual musical plays.

She was a 64-year member of the Homer City United Methodist Church and its Ideal Friendship Class. She also sang in the choir, worked with the youth program and served several terms on the administrative board. She was one of the leaders of the capital campaign that built the classroom and fellowship hall addition in the early 1990s.

For more than 50 years, she was a member and past president of the Homer City Women's Club, a member and past regent of the Indiana Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution and member and past president of her professional sorority, Alpha Delta Kappa. She also held memberships in the National and Pennsylvania Retired Teachers associations, Indiana Chapter of Questers, Indiana County Historical and Genealogical Society and Homer Center Historical Society.

She is survived by her husband, L. Murray Burns; four children, Georgia Ann Wensell (John) of Darlington, Md., Reynolds Clark (Linda) of Franklin Park, David Clark of Havre de Grace, Md., and Sally Bossert (Michael) of Las Vegas; a former daughter-in-law, Linda Gailey Clark of Havre de Grace; five step-children, Rebecca Kovar (Leonard) of Hudson, Fla., Kathleen Burns of Nashville, Tenn., Nancy Kitko (Ray) of Oklahoma City, Sherry Jones (Morgan) of Pittsburgh and Brenda Burns of Columbus, Ohio.

Also surviving are seven grandchildren, eight step-grandchildren, four great-grandchildren and two step-great-grandchildren.

Mrs. Burns was preceded in death by her first husband of 57 years, Gordon O. Clark, and an infant sister, Emily.

<B>BURNS</B> - To accommodate family and friends, visitation for Sara Clark Burns who died Wednesday, July 27, 2005, will be held from 1 to 3 p.m. Sunday at FOX FUNERAL HOME, Main Street, Saxonburg; and from 6 to 9 p.m. Sunday at BOWSER FUNERAL HOME, Route 119 South, Homer City. Visitation also will be held from 9:30 to 10:30 a.m. Monday at Homer City United Methodist Church, where services will follow at 11 a.m. with the Rev. Joseph Stains and the Rev. William Starr officiating. Burial will follow at 3 p.m. Sunday at Oakmont Cemetery, Waynesburg.Funeral arrangements are being handled by C. FREDERICK BOWSER FUNERAL HOME, Homer City.In lieu of flowers, memorial donations may be made to the Lund Center Capital Campaign, Concordia Lutheran Ministries, 615 N. Pike Road, Cabot, PA 16023.