Obituaries:  Dr. J. K. Phares, Sabine Parish       P-620
Source:  Sabine Index, Many, La., May 5, 1961
Submitted by: Carl Dilbeck
              carlrad@earthlink.net




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Dr. J. K. Phares

  Funeral services were held for Dr. J. K. Phares at the First
Baptist Church in Many, Tuesday, May 2, with the Reverend V. R.
Miller officiating, assisted by Dr. Kelly Fitzgerald.

  Honorary pallbearers were the members of the Sabine Medical
Association. Active pallbearers were Reuel Boone, O. E. Williams,
LaVerne Daily, Horace Tompkins, Lee Jordan, T. M. Phillips, Jack
Lucius, and Elden Dees.

  Dr. Phares practiced medicine for forty six years in Vernon and
Sabine Parishes. He started practicing medicine at Hornbeck in
1906, and moved to Negreet in 1909. In 1925, he moved to Many to
practice medicine, and be coroner for Sabine Parish.

  Dr. Phares was born in Sugar Town in Beauregard Parish, March
31, 1882. His parents moved to Mt. Carmel in Sabine Parish, while
he was an infant. He attended the grade school there, and
obtained his high school education at the Fort Jesup Academy. He
finished medical school at the University of the South at
Sewanee, Tenn.

  Between terms of medical school, Dr. Phares taught school in the
Middle Creek Community, Sabine Parish. He was coroner of Sabine
for 28 years, and Parish Health Officer for 12 years.

  In 1943-44, he served as Sheriff of Sabine Parish, filling the
unexpired term of D. J. Derrick, who died while in the sheriff's
office. He was a member of the First Baptist Church of Many, and
a Master Mason.

  He is survived by his wife, Sally Gipson Phares. They were
married in Winchester, Tenn., in Dec. 1906. His other survivors
are sons, Ross, Glen, James; and a daughter, Edna Cole. He has
seven grandchildren; and one great grandchild.