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Elizabeth, Indiana Clifford Lee Darkis, 83. Died Thursday, February 10, 2022, at the Indian Creek HealthCare Facility in Corydon, Indiana. He was born July 14 1938, in Upper River Bottom, Medora, Indiana to John Leslie and Katherine Wolke Darkis. Clifford was a very skilled laborer throughout his life. He worked in the copper mines in Tennessee until he became ill with copper poisoning and had to quite. He helped build the Campgrounds at Starve Hollow at Vilonia, Indiana, He worked in a fertilizer plant, a quarry in Salem and various other jobs throughout his life excelling at each position he held. He married the love of life, "June" on May 2, 1974, and they moved to Florida in 1975,...