Timothy Lance Clark, was born in Shattuck, Oklahoma. Lance was reared in Woodward and graduated from Woodward High School in 1989. He was married to Melina Gail Billings in Woodward on October 19, 1991. He graduated from Northwestern Oklahoma State University in 1995 with a Degree in Ecology and Biology and obatined an Associates Degree form the Dallas Institute of Funeral Service in 1998. He has been employed with the Billings Funeral Home since 1997. In April of 2002 Lance and Glenn S. Billings purchased the funeral home.