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 Heather Anne Clark, daughter of Walter Jerry and Mildred Anne Clark, was born on Monday, May 5, 1975, at 8:40 A.M., at Warren County General Hospital, McMinnville, Tennessee. She weighed 7 lbs. 1 oz. and was 22 and 1/4 in. long. Her chest was 13 in. and her head 13 in. The birth was a normal delivery. Her maternal grandparents were Fred Lewis McGlothin and Mildred Louise McGlothin. Her paternal grandparents were Walter O. Clark and Rowena Clark. At six weeks of age, she weighed ten pounds. At five months, she weighed 15 pounds, and when she was five years old she weighed 41 pounds and was 44 inches tall. She was five weeks old the first time she smiled and at six weeks she laughed her first real laugh. She first turned over from back to front at 3 and 1/2 months and from front to back at 4 months. She first crawled at 5 months and pulled herself up to a sitting position at 7 months and one week. One week later, she stood up in her crib. She was around one year old when she really started walking. Her first words were gigum, hagar ah, dada, baba, nana, hidi, hidi Sugar Pie! She was five months old when she got her first tooth. She spoonfed herself at the age of 14 months. She went on her first picnic when she was 1 month old and on her first out-of-town trip (to Murfreesboro, TN) at the age of 2 months. Her first vacations were to Baton Rouge, LA (1977), Bisbee, AZ (1978), and Charleston, SC, and Savannah, GA (1978). Her first toys were a 'Heather' doll (Holly Hobby's friend), an orange squeeze monkey, a playgym, etc. Her first favorite doll was named Tidys Pooh Clark. Heather's first playmates were Daniel LaFevor, Crystal Maynard, Allison McGlothin, Crystal & Charity McGlothin. Heather was a very good and quiet baby. She wanted to get along with others and played well with other children. Beginning at the age of 7 months, she would stand and wave to people and say "Hidi" to everyone and also "Hidi, Sugar Pie" and "Bye-bye Sugar Pie". Heather received all her childhood immunizations and her only childhood illnesses were viral infections which caused high fevers. She was in the Copper Queen Hospital (Bisbee, AZ) for three days in February, 1978, because of a high fever occasioned by an acute viral infection.  |