Lucie Arnaz is mourning the loss of a beloved family friend and confidante.
On Oct. 5, the daughter of Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz posted to Instagram to announce the death of her mother’s long-time secretary, Wanda Clark. Arnaz, 74, shared a slideshow of throwback photos of her and others with Clark.
“We will miss you until we meet again,” she wrote. “Wanda Clark 1938-2025.”
Arnaz also paid tribute to Clark on Facebook, where she described her as “chosen family” and “one of the finest human beings” she knew.
"Wanda began working as my mother's secretary when I was about 11, she was the Matron of Honor at my first wedding, she traveled across the globe to catch any performance of mine she could get to, including to our daughter's wedding," Arnaz wrote.
“[She] stayed in my brother, Desi's and my life for decades after my mother passed. She was my North Star," Arnaz wrote. “Wanda and [late assistant Frank Gorey’s] spirit of joy and pure kindness are responsible for most of anything good in me."
"Fly swift on angel's wings, beautiful Wanda. You lived a perfect life,” Arnaz wrote.
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Diehard Lucille Ball fans knew Clark well. Not only was she Ball’s secretary for 27 years, but she was a regular guest at the Lucy Desi Museum in Jamestown, NY, where she shared stories of working with the comedy legend. Clark was frequently interviewed for specials about the beloved I Love Lucy star. She even made a cameo in one of Ball’s sitcoms in the 1960s.
Clark appeared in the 1969 “Here’s Lucy” episode titled “Lucy Protects Her Job,” per IMDb. Clark played—what else?—a secretary in the episode, and her casting came courtesy of Ball herself.
Clark spoke about her cameo on the CBS sitcom in a 2015 interview with Voices of Oklahoma. “The script was, Lucy was supposed to hire someone to help her in the office,” Clark recalled. “The script called for a really fast typist, really, really fast. And Lucy found out at the first read-through around the table that the actor they hired for that part could not type. Lucy says, ‘Get Wanda down here.’ They called me, and I went down and I did that part.”
“But the funny thing is, I’d been typing on an electric typewriter for many years by that time,” Clark continued. “And electric typewriters don’t have a carriage sling, and that’s what Lucy wanted, the clang, clang in the sling. So what I typed that day was gibberish, but I had the rhythm, and that’s what Lucy wanted. The rhythm of that typist. So anyway, it was a lot of fun, I’m glad I got to do it."
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