Obituaries:  Van Buren Sistrunk, Sabine Parish       S-236
Source:  Sabine Index, Many, La., Feb 28, 1980
Submitted by: Carl Dilbeck
              carlrad@earthlink.net




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Van Buren Sistrunk

  Van Buren Sistrunk, 56, of Shreveport, died Tuesday, Feb. 26, in
Willis-Knighton Hospital, after a sudden illness.

  Services were held at 1 p.m., Wednesday, Feb. 27, in the
Marshall Street Chapel of Rose-Neath Funeral Home, with the Rev.
J. C. Clement, pastor of the Lakeshore Baptist Church,
officiating. Burial was in Forest Park.

  Mr. Sistrunk, a native of Pleasant Hill, had lived in Shreveport
since 1943. He was employed in the accounting department of Arkla
Gas Co., and was a member of the Lakeshore Baptist Church.

  Survivors include his widow, Delia Sistrunk of Shreveport; his
mother, Onie Irene Sistrunk of Pleasant Hill; a daughter, Lila J.
Sistrunk of Boise, Idaho; four sisters, Vera Robinson of Calusa,
Calif., Sarah Callens of Kilgore, Texas, Joyce Cox of Minden, and
Shirley Flowers of Delhi, Calif.; and three brothers, Tony
Sistrunk of Minden, James Sistrunk of Pleasant Hill, and Billy
Sistrunk of Kilgore.

  Pallbearers were Bill Herrin, Charles Bradley, Andrew Miciotto,
David Williams, J. T. Royal, Ray Hollifield, Doyle Stephens, and
W. W. James.