Ouachita County Louisiana Archives Obituaries.....BYRD, DAVID S. JR.  July 17, 2009
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News Star World - July 19, 2009
DAVID S. BYRD, JR. 

Mulhearn Funeral Home Sterlington Road, Monroe, LA 

Funeral services for Dr. David S. Byrd, Jr., 79, of Monroe, LA will be held at 
2:00 PM Sunday, July 19, 2009 in the chapel of Mulhearn Funeral Home, 
Sterlington Road, Monroe with Dr. Whit Holmes officiating. Interment will 
follow at Mulhearn Memorial Park Mausoleum. Dr. Byrd passed away Friday, July 
17, 2009. He was a member and deacon of Parkview Baptist Church, where he 
taught Sunday School for forty years. He was a retired Chemistry Professor 
from the University of Louisiana at Monroe (NLU), where he taught for thirty-
one years. He was a member of the Gideons International for twenty-three 
years. He was preceded in death by his parents, David, Sr. and Vivian Byrd. 
Survivors include his wife of 56 years, Julia V. Byrd; daughters, Janie 
Redding and husband Jerry of West Monroe, LA and Barbara Hampton and husband 
Clark Randall Hampton of Roswell, GA; granddaughters, Leigh Hampton, Allison 
Redding, and Greer Hampton; brother, John Ben Byrd of Jacksonville, AR; 
several nieces and nephews. Pallbearers will be Robert Havard, David Tyler, 
Rick Busher, John White, Ivy R. Redding, and Bill Hampton. Honorary 
pallbearers will be the members of Dr. Byrd's Sunday School Class. Visitation 
will be from 1:00 PM until 2:00 PM Sunday, July 19, 2009 at Mulhearn Funeral 
Home, Sterlington Road, Monroe. The family would like to thank Dr. Floyd 
Jones, Dr. P. Thomas Causey, Dr. Charles B. Joyce, Dr. Thomas Gulick, the 
staff of Landmark Nursing Home, and Southern Care Hospice for their loving 
care. Memorials may be made to Parkview Baptist Church at 1001 Forsythe 
Avenue, Monroe, LA 71201 or Gideons International at P.O. Box 4612, Monroe, LA 
71211. 

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