They moved to San Francisco where she continued to work as a journalist for Fairchild Fashion Media. She married a Marine named David Lyon, and appended his last name to hers. Several of her other poems were published and anthologized. Harner earned a degree in journalism at Kansas State University. It was soon reprinted in the Kansas City Times and the Kansas City Bar Bulletin. Harner's poem quickly gained traction as a eulogy and was read at funerals in Kansas and Missouri. It was written shortly after the sudden death of her brother. Kansas native Clare Harner (1909–1977) first published 'Immortality' in the December 1934 issue of poetry magazine The Gypsy. Often now used is a slight variant: 'Do not stand at my grave and weep'. ' Do not stand by my grave and weep' is the first line and popular title of the bereavement poem ' Immortality', written by Clare Harner in 1934. The poem on a gravestone at St Peter’s church, Wapley, England
