Extracted from The Franklin Sun (Winnsboro, LA)
Thursday, April 21, 1966

`Uncle Bob Dark'

Last rites for 93-year-old Robert Lee (Uncle Bob) Dark were held Wednesday afternoon. The funeral was at First National Funeral Chapel, Winnsboro, and interment was in Ogden Cemetery, in the Liddieville community.

The officiating minister was the Rev. John Kitchingham. Masonic graveside services were conducted.

Mr. Dark, who died early Tuesday in a nursing home at Wisner was a resident of Route 5, Winnsboro.

He was a past-vice-president of the Franklin Parish School Board, a member of the Columbia Lodge of Free and Accepted Masons, a past-District Deputy Grand Master of the Louisiana Grand Lodge, F.& A.M., and he held a 50-year Masonic membership certificate.

Surviving are two sons, P. L. Dark, Winnsboro, and Carl Dark, Delhi; six daughters, Mrs. Ivy Simon and Mrs. Della Ross of Winnsboro, Mrs. S. C. Ferguson of Ferriday, Mrs. Audie Knight of San Diego, Calif., Mrs. D. C. McGraw, Shreveport, and Mrs. L. H. Young, New Windsor, Ill.; 22 grandchildren, 43 great-grandchildren and five great-great grandchildren.

Grandsons served as pallbearers.