Obituary: April 1966, Franklin Parish, LA
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'Uncle Bob' Dark
Troy A. Erskin

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The Franklin Sun       Winnsboro, LA        April 21, 1966
Submitted Feb. 2006 by: Glenda Warner Boyd
 
'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.


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The Franklin Sun      Winnsboro, LA        April 21, 1966
Submitted Jan. 2006 by: Glenda Warner Boyd
 
Troy A. Erskin
 
Final rites were conducted Wednesday afternoon for Troy Alson Erskin, 79, 
who died Tuesday in a hospital here after a lengthy period of illness. 
The funeral was at First National Chapel, Winnsboro, and burial was in 
Lone Cedar Cemetery. The Rev. Bill Macon and the Rev. Brown Brown officiated.
 
Mr. Erskin, who resided near Winnsboro, is survived by three daughters, 
Mrs. Evie Johns, Mrs. Jessie Cruse and Miss Sarah Erskin of Winnsboro; 
two sisters, Mrs. Visia Brown, Clarks, and Mrs. Edna Cruse, Winnsboro, and two 
brothers, Everett and Alvin Erskin, both of Winnsboro.
 
Pallbearers were Durham, Willie and "Bo" Erskin, Gene, J.W. and J.E. Bennett.

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