Sarah Ellen Clement Obituary (1982

Sarah Clement, 24, of Birmingham, Alabama, formerly of Russellville, went home to be with her Lord on Friday, December 29, 2006 in Birmingham. The daughter of John and Jan McColl Clement, she was born May 9, 1982 in Clarksville. Sarah was an outstanding athlete, and was a member of the Russellville High School varsity basketball, varsity track and varsity golf team. She was named to the Arkansas All-State Girls Basketball and Track Teams in both her junior and senior years in high school. She graduated with highest honors from Russellville High School in 2000 and was admitted to the RHS Athletic Hall of Fame that same year. She was further honored by RHS with the establishment of the RHS Sarah Clement Womens Athletic Sportsmanship Award, to be awarded annually beginning in 2006. She was a member of the National Honor Society, the Spanish National Honor Society and she was a finalist in the Russellville Rotary Clubs Young Person of the Year. She received the Arkansas Activities Associations Active Scholar Award in 2000 and Tysons Achievement Award in 2000. She enjoyed mentoring younger athletes and served as a camp counselor and referee at the Arkansas Tech University Womens Basketball summer camps in 2000-2003. Sarah realized the importance of academics and also tutored RHS students in calculus, chemistry and English. Sarahs volunteer spirit was rooted in her spirituality and was evidenced in her work with the Campus Outreach at the Summer Beach Project in 2001, the Appalachian Service Summer Mission Project Trips in 1998-2000. She participated in Relay For Life and was a Special Olympics softball coach. She received her bachelor of science in pre-medicine in 2005 from Samford University in Birmingham. She was a member of the Samford University varsity basketball team and the varsity track team from 2000-2005 and was Team Captain for the Samford Womens Basketball Team in 2004-2005. She was a member of the university Student Athlete Advisory Committee from 2001-2005. She continues to hold the Samford University discus record in track. Sarah was named to the All-Trans Atlantic Athletic Conference in Track in 2001, the Academic All-Atlantic Athletic Conference in 2001, the Academic All-Athletic Sun Conference in 2002-2003 and the Academic All-Ohio Valley Conference in 2002-2003. Sarah continued her volunteer work while working on her degree from Samford. She worked as a reading coach with Edgewood Elementary students in Homewood, Alabama and served as a mentor to Oak Mountain, Alabama students. She was a member of Zeta Tau Alpha Sorority and Lambda Delta Honor Society and Chi Alpha Sigma National Honor Society. She was also a member of the Samford University Fellowship of Christian Athletes. During the summer of 2004 Sarah worked at Southeastern Orthotics and Prosthetics in Chattanooga assisting patients in the fit and production of custom orthotics. Beginning in June of 2005 she began work as a radiation therapy attendant at the University of Alabama Hospital in Birmingham in the radiation oncology department. Sarah was planning to start physical therapy school at UAB next week. She was a member of the First United Methodist Church in Russellville and attended Church of the Highlands in Mountain Brook, Alabama. She was preceded by her paternal grandparents, W.J. and Thelma Clement and maternal grandfather, Allan C. McColl. She is survived by her parents, John and Jan Clement, Russellville; two sisters, Meghan Clement, Orlando, Florida, Amy Clement Sasser and her husband Gordon, Prarie Grove; maternal grandmother, Ernestine McColl, Chattanooga, TN; aunts and uncles, Ginny Nevins and husband John, Atlanta, GA; Bruce McColl and wife Lynn, Tuscaloosa, AL, Mike McColl, Chattanooga, TN, Mark McColl and wife, Margaret, Birmingham, AL; a nephew, Louis Sasser, Prarie Grove; nine first cousins; extended family, William Iraheta and wife Elizabeth and their children, Jacqueline, Chris, Erica and Sarah of Danville. Funeral will be at 10 am Wednesday, January 3, 2007 at First United Methodist Church in Russellville. Burial will be at Hunt's Chapel at Rover, Arkansas by Humphrey Funeral Service. Visitation will be at 7-9:00 pm Tuesday at the funeral home in Russellville. Active pallbearers are Ron Brewer, Matt Kordsmeier, J.O. Bailey, Steve George, Cameron Lane, Tom Peebles and C.J. Foley. Honorary pallbearers will be her fellow athletes and coaches including AAU, Plainview, Russellville and Samford. Memorials may be made to First United Methodist Church, 301 South Denver, Russellville, AR 72801. A memorial service will be held on the Samford University Campus at 2pm on Sunday, January, 7th. PDF Printable Version