Obituaries:  Mrs. J. K. Phares, Sabine Parish       P-620
Source:  Sabine Index, Many, La., Oct 24, 1968
Submitted by: Carl Dilbeck
              carlrad@earthlink.net




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Mrs. J. K. Phares

  Mrs. J. K. Pares, a longtime resident of Sabine Parish, passed
away in a local hospital, Monday, Oct. 14, following an extended
illness.

  Mrs. Phares was the wife of the late Dr. J. K. Phares, who
practiced medicine in Vernon and Sabine Parishes for 51 years.

  Mrs. Phares was born in Sewanee, Tenn., Oct. 16, 1885, the
daughter of George D. Gipson, and Margaret Gilliam. She and Dr.
Phares were married Dec. 30, 1906, after Dr. Phares' graduation
from medical school.

  Following their marriage, the young couple moved to Hornbeck,
where Dr. Phares engaged to Negreet, where he continued his
practice, and she taught music.

  She was a graduate of the Winchester Normal in Winchester,
Tenn., her grandfather being one of the founders of this college.

  Mrs. Phares was one of the last survivors of the period, in the
practice of medicine, that saw every baby born in it's own home,
and the doctor gone for days at a time during an epidemic, to the
age of penicillin, and gleaming hospitals. From the age when the
doctor and his wife rode for miles on horseback during the night,
he to administer his knowledge and skill, and she to be the nurse
in some lonely farm home, to the speeding ambulance, and
specialist in all fields of the practice of medicine.

  In 1924, Dr. and Mrs. Phares moved to Many, where they resided
for the remainder of their lives.

  Survivors include three sons, Rose Phares of Houston, Glen
Phares of Many, and James J. Phares of Downey, Calif.; one
daughter, Edna Cole of Many; one sister, Mrs. Mary Webb of Los
Angeles, Calif.; one brother, Oscar Gipson of Hermosa Beach,
Calif.; several grandchildren; and eleven great grandchildren.

  Funeral services were conducted by the Rev. Perry Lassiter, and
the Rev. James Skinner in the First Baptist Church of Many.
Interment was in the Many Cemetery.

  Pallbearers were Reuel Boone, Jack Lucius, Horace Tompkins,
Charles Williams, Less Jordan, and Harold Williams.