Extracted from The News-Star (Monroe, LA)
Monday, November 10, 1958

Marvin Crain, Native of Winn, Dies In Shreveport

SHREVEPORT (Special) -- Marvin (Jack) Crain, 51, of Shreveport, brother of Mrs. Ralph Talbot and Mrs. Gladys Monroe of Monroe, died Sunday in a local hospital.

Last rites will be conducted at 10 a.m. Tuesday at the Rose-Neath Chapel with the Rev. A. S. Howard, pastor of the Summer Grove Baptist Church, officiating. Interment will follow in Forest Park Cemetery.

Mr. Crain was superintendent of the furnace department at the Libbey-Owens-Ford Glass Co. A native of Winn Parish, he had lived in Shreveport for the past 30 years.

Other survivors include his widow of Shreveport; two sons, Marvin G. Crain of Shreveport and Ronald D. Crain of the U.S. army at Baltimore, Md.; a daughter, Miss Jacqueline Crain of Shreveport; two brothers, C. R. Crain and C. V. Crain, both of Shreveport; four other sisters, Mrs. Ottis Puckett of Pineville, Mrs. Myrtis Garr [sic Gaar] of Dodson, Mrs. Nita Kidd of Minden and Mrs. Billie Byrd of Pine Bluff, Ark.; two stepsons, Stuart Eason of Fort Worth, Tex., and Sgt. Warren Eason of the U.S. army at Ft. Sills, Okla.; and his mother, Mrs. R. W. Crain of Dodson.