Extracted from The Shreveport Times (Shreveport, LA)
Saturday, February 27, 1988

Shelby S. Dark, Sr.

START, LA. - Services for Mr. Shelby S. Dark., 79, of Start, will be held at 3 p.m. Sunday Feb. 28 at the Start Baptist Church, where he was a member. The Rev. Mickey Hawkins and the Rev. Willie Woodard will officiate. Burial will be at Start Cemetery.

Visitation: 5 p.m. to 9 p.m. Saturday; 8 a.m. to 12 noon Sunday; at Mulhearn Funeral Home in Rayville, La.

Mr. Dark died Friday morning Feb. 26, 1988, at St. Francis Medical Center in Monroe, La. after a lengthy illness. He was a resident of Start for the past 50 years. He was a retired construction superintendent for Don Baxter & Son Construction Co.

He is survived by his wife, Mrs. Lucille Terrell Dark of Start; two daughters, Thelma Dark Deal and Shirley Dark Woodard, of Springhill, La.; two sons, Shelby S. Dark, Jr. of Littleton, Colo. and Will Dark of DeRidder, La.; two brothers, Ross Dark of Columbia, La. and J.L. Dark of Dodson, La.; a sister, Mrs. Ottice Dark Sanders of Chestnut, La.; nine grandchildren and five great-grandchildren.