Extracted from The Shreveport Times (Shreveport, LA)
Monday, June 27, 1966

Dalco Gaar Dies After Short Illness

Dalco D. Gaar, 60, of Kilbourne, of Kilbourne, died at 12:40 p.m. Sunday in Confederate Memorial Hospital following an illness of one month.

Funeral services under the direction of First National Funeral Home of Shreveport will be held at 2 p.m. Tuesday at Springhill Baptist Church near Jonesboro. Burial will be in Transport Cemetery at Jonesboro.

Mr. Gaar, a native of Jonesboro, had been a Kilbourne resident for 33 years. He was a retired constructtion [sic construction] worker.

Survivors include his widow, Mrs. Esther Gaar of Kilbourne; a son, James D. Gaar, stationed with the United State Air Force at Mountain Home, Idaho; a daughter, Mrs. Murrell Philley of Houma, and two sisters, Mrs. A. J. Culpepper of Shreveport and Mrs. Emmett Lowrey of Hodge.

The body will lie in state at First National until 10 a.m. Tuesday.
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Extracted from The News-Star (Monroe, LA)
Tuesday, June 28, 1966

Dalco D. Gaar

KILBOURNE (Special) -- Funeral services for Dalco D. Gaar, 60, of Kilbourne, were to be held at 2 p.m. today at Springhill Baptist Church near Jonesboro.

Burial was to be in Transport cemetery near Jonesboro, under direction of First National Funeral Home of Shreveport.

Mr. Gaar died Sunday at Confederate Memorial Hospital in Shreveport following a month long illness.