Vera Leight Clinard

Services for Vera Leigh Clinard 75 of Temple and formerly of Salado will be at Harper-Talasek Funeral Home in Temple February 26, 2010 with Paul Sanders officiating. Visitation will be held at 1:30 pm with Memorial Services beginning at 2:30 pm. She passed away February 23, 2010.

    Vera was born in Troy Texas to Jim and Florence Redden. She graduated from Troy high school and attended Mary Hardin-Baylor. She was a homemaker and retired bank bookkeeper.
    Survivors include three daughters, Cynthia Mahan of Austin TX/Angel Fire NM, Jessica York of Salado, Melissa Rosenau of North Richland Hills, three sons Kevin Bittner of Flower Mound, Jeffrey Bittner of Crockett and Michael Tierney of Belton and three step-sons Paul Clinard of Temple, Randy Clinard of Austin and Kenneth Clinard of Houston.
    She is also survived by two sisters Daisy Coupland of Edinburg and  Raedean Popelka of Coppell; Three brothers, JR (Buddy) Redden of Midland, Delane Redden of Belton, Wayne Redden of Shreveport. and two step-sisters Laverne (Patsy) Ellis Ethridge of Odessa and Shirley Ellis Lundgren of Austin.
    Also, 26 grandchildren and 12 great grandchildren.
    She was preceded in death by her parents, a son Vincent Paul Sheehan in 1975 and her husband Bill Clinard in 1996.