Les Clark
Last Sunday, my wife and I visited the final resting place of one of Walt Disney's Nine Old Men. Les Clark worked in the Disney animation department for 48 years. He assisted Ub Iwerks on "Plane Crazy", the first Mickey Mouse film to be produced. He was born in Utah and lived most of his life in Los Angeles. I was quite surprised to learn that he was buried in rural Tennessee. His second wife, Georgia Vester, was a Tennessee native. When he passed away in 1979, she had Les interred in her family plot at Pleasant Ridge Cemetery near the small town of Big Sandy, just south of a national preserve called Land Between the Lakes. When Georgia was asked how long they had been married (twelve years), her reply was "not long enough". She died in 2000, and is buried between Les and her parents.
The book in the photos is "Walt Disney's Nine Old Men and the Art of Animation" by John Canemaker. For those interested in Disney history, it is an essential.
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