Age 80, Lawton - Funeral services will be 1:00 p.m. Monday in the First Baptist Church with Rev. Tom Willoughby and Dr. William F. Watkins, officiating. Miss Clouse died Wednesday in a Lawton care center. Burial will be in Sunset Memorial Gardens under the direction of the Becker Funeral Home. She was born October 16, 1928 in Amarillo, Texas, to James Bayard and Marguerite Pearl (Rankin) Clouse. She became a Christian at the age of nine at the First Baptist Church in Amarillo, Texas. She attended Amarillo Junior College and earned her B.S. in Religious Journalism from Oklahoma Baptist University. Miss Clouse worked for the Baptist Sunday Sunday School Board in Nashville, Tennessee, before coming to Lawton in September of 1952 to work for the First Baptist Church as editor of the "Visitor". She remained at First Baptist Church until retirement in 2003 and was the records secretary. She had taught Sunday School and served as a Falls Creek volunteer. She is survived by a sister, Ann McMurry, Lawton; a nephew and his wife, Mike and Linda McMurry, two nieces; Linda Hill and Debbie Doherpy and her husband Mark, all of Texas, many great nieces and nephews and great great nieces and nephews. Her parents preceded her in death. Memorial contributions may be made First Baptist Church, P.O. Box 1409, Lawton OK 73502.