Obituaries:  Mr. Loyd Bradford Garner, Sabine Parish       G-656
Source:  Sabine Index, Many, La., Aug 15, 2001
Submitted by: Carl Dilbeck
              carlrad@earthlink.net

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Mr. Loyd Bradford Garner (Photo)

  Mr. Loyd Bradford Garner lost his battle with colon cancer on
August 9.

  Funeral services were held Saturday, August 11, at Beulah
Baptist Church, with the Rev. Billy Copeland, and the Rev.
Kenneth Leach officiating. Interment followed in Beulah Cemetery.

  Mr. Garner was born in Smith County, Mississippi, on February
12, 1921. L. B. moved to West Carroll Parish in Louisiana, as a
young boy. In World War II, he served in Normandy, Northern
France, Ardennes, Rhineland, Central Europe, and received the
Purple Heart Medal. He retired from the La. Dept. of Agriculture,
where he was a supervisor in the Livestock Brand and Theft Dept.
He moved to Sabine Parish in 1987, and was a member of Beulah
Baptist Church. Anywhere he lived, he loved to work on projects
for the betterment of his community.

  Mr. Garner served his country in World War II; his state, his
church, and community in peace.

  Preceding him in death were his parents, Preston D., and Annie
Garner; two brothers, T. G. Garner, and R. D. Garner; and two
sisters, Nettie Lack, and Willie Mae Robinson.

  Survivors included his widow of 58 years, Irene Garner of Many;
two daughters, Rita and son-in-law Max Douglas of Kingwood,
Texas, and JoAnn Garner of Shreveport; one granddaughter, Melissa
Douglas of Kingwood, Texas; one grandson, Scott Douglas of
Austin, Texas; one sister, Dorthelen Purvis of Kilbourne; and a
host of nieces and nephews.

  Friends serving as honorary pallbearers were Earl Bates, Henry
Riggs, Sydney Bishop, Jay Grafton, Truman Oxley, and Tink Ross.

  Pallbearers were Donnie Brinkley, L. D. Brinkley, Gary Kritz,
Donald Lack, Robbie Riggs, and Wes Scarbrough.

  What Cancer Can't Do:

  Cancer is so limited -
  It cannot shatter hope,
  It cannot corrode faith,
  It cannot destroy confidence,
  It cannot kill friendship,
  It cannot shut out memories,
  It cannot silence courage,
  It cannot invade the soul,
  It cannot reduce eternal life,
  It cannot quench the Spirit,
  It cannot lessen the power of the Resurrection.

  Warren Meadows, Many, La.