Extracted from The Port Arthur News (Port Arthur, TX)
Wednesday, October 11, 1939

FUNERAL CONDUCTED FOR MINISTER'S BABY

Funeral services were conducted at 11 a.m. today in Grammier's Chapel for John Preston Darby, Jr., two-week-old son of the Rev. J. P. and Mrs. Darby, 1900 Stilwell boulevard, who died at 3 p.m. Tuesday in St. Mary's hospital after a week's illness.

The Rev. Oscar Perkins, pastor of the Memorial Baptist church, and the Rev. F. D. Williamson, pastor of the Port Acres Baptist Church, officiated. Burial was in Greenlawn cemetery.

The father of the infant is a Baptist minister.

Survivors are the parents; a brother, Early Stanley Darby; grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. I. T. Corley, all of Port Arthur; and several aunts and uncles.