Extracted from The Port Arthur News (Port Arthur, TX)
Thursday, July 30, 1936

SERVICES HELD TODAY FOR PORT ACRES BABY

Services for Shirley Mildred Monk, seven-months-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. J. C. Monk of Port Acres, who died at 10:15 p.m. Wednesday at St. Mary's hospital following a lingering illness will be held at 1 p.m. today at the Port Acres Baptist church, with Rev. F. D. Williamson officiating. Burial, in charge of Grammier Funeral Home, will follow in Greenlawn cemetery.

Survivors besides the parents are four sisters, Mrs. J. H. Tompkins, Daisy Lee, Ella Crystle and Jessie Bee Monk; six brothers, J. D., James V., Elmer, Dennie, Herman and Donald Monk; an uncle, G. W. Monk, all of Port Acres; and several other relatives living in Louisiana.