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Ward died on January 16, 1973 at age 48 as a result of the strokes. Aretha Franklin and Rev. C. L. Franklin sang at her funeral in Philadelphia; Marion Williams sang at her second memorial service held days later in Los Angeles. Clara Ward is interred in the Forest Lawn Memorial Park Cemetery in Glendale, California.
Oct 4, 2018 · In surveying Franklin’s extraordinary odyssey, he touched briefly on the gospel singer Clara Ward, and he noted the influence she had on her protégé as well as Ward’s “on again, off again,”...
Aretha learned all of Clara Ward’s music and sang duets with her. Aretha Louise Franklin was born March 25th, I942, the second youngest of six children. The Reverend had come up from...
Aug 6, 2012 · Clara Ward, one of gospel's greatest divas and Aretha Franklin's favorite singers. Anthony Heilbut's book The Fan Who Knew Too Much: Aretha Franklin, the Rise of the Soap Opera,...
1924-1973. Considered one of the greatest soloists in gospel history, Clara Ward and her Famous Ward Singers—a group started by her mother, Gertrude—toured their signature rollicking gospel sound around the country, in churches, arenas and even, quite controversially, nightclubs.
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Apr 10, 2021 · While Ward never remarried nor had children, she was a close friend of Reverend Clarence LaVaughn Franklin, Aretha Franklin’s father, whom the Ward Singers toured with throughout the 1950s. Ward has composed and arranged more than 500 gospel scores.
During the early 1950s, the Wards began regularly touring with the Reverend C.L. Franklin of Detroit; the father of Aretha Franklin – herself an admitted disciple of Clara Ward – he was a gifted singer and preacher in his own right, and as his star rose the group’s fame continued to grow.
