Obituaries:  Richard Fayne "Dick" Hart, Sabine Parish       H-630
Source:  Sabine Index, Many, La., Nov 20, 1980
Submitted by: Carl Dilbeck
              carlrad@earthlink.net


**********************************************
Copyright.  All rights reserved.
http://usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm
http://usgwarchives.net/la/lafiles.htm
**********************************************
**

Richard Fayne "Dick" Hart

  Funeral services for Richard Fayne "Dick" Hart, of Converse,
were held Saturday, Nov. 15, at 3:30 p.m., at the Rose-Neath
Marshall St. Chapel in Shreveport. Burial was in the Greenwood
Cemetery, with Felton Pruitt, Tilman Franks, Douglas "Dobber"
Johnson, Glenn Rachal, Roger Cotton, and James Doolittle, serving
as pallbearers.

  Mr. Hart died Thursday, Nov. 13, at 1:40 a.m., at the LSU
Medical Center in Shreveport, following a lengthy illness. He was
56.

  A well known country and western entertainer and songwriter, Mr.
Hart had his own radio show on KWKH, and KARK, in Little Rock,
Ark., and was a member of the Barnyard Frolic Family. He was a
native of Forbing, and had lived in Converse for several years.
He was a self-employed taxidermist.

  Survivors include his widow, Mrs. Rose Hart of Converse; his
mother, Mrs. Norma Brown of Bossier City; one son, David Martin,
and one daughter, Sylvia Jean Simon, both of Pasadena, Tex., five
brothers, Clyde F. Hart Jr. of Broomfield, Colo., Eugene M. Hart
of Albuquerque, N. M., Charles T. Hart Sr. of Houma, Clifton Hart
of Angleton, Tex., and David Solomon of Bogalusa; and two
grandchildren, Mike Simon, and Scott Simon, both of Pasadena,
Tex.