Obituaries:  Mr. Robert Howard Tarpley, Sabine Parish       T-614
Source:  Sabine Index, Many, La., Mar 18, 1998
Submitted by: Carl Dilbeck
              carlrad@earthlink.net 




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

Mr. Robert Howard Tarpley

  Mr. Robert Howard Tarpley, 73, of Kilgore, Texas died Sunday,
March 18 in a Longview hospital.

  Funeral services will be held at 10 a.m. Wednesday, March 15 in
the Rader Funeral Home Chapel. Graveside services will be held
Wednesday, March 18 at 4 p.m. in the Oak Hill Cemetery in Many.

  Mr. Tarpley was born April 24, 1924 in Many to James and Delma
Tarpley. He had been a resident of the Kilgore, Texas area for 37
years. He was a member of Friendship Baptist Church in Kilgore,
Texas, a member of the Masonic Lodge, the Sharon Shrine Temple in
Tyler and Littlefield Masonic Lodge in Many. Mr. Tarpley was veteran
of the U. S. Navy and served during World War II and Korea. He also
retired from Brooks Well Services in 1990.

  Survivors include one daughter, Christina Dorsett of Kilgore,
Texas; three sons, Rogar Lee Tarpley of Waxahachie, Steven Jay
Tarpley of Kilgore, and Jerry Robert Tarpley of Gladewater; four
brothers, Clyde Tarpley of Winnfield, Bobby Tarpley, of Many, Wayne
Tarpley of Zwolle and Floyd Tarpley of Many; four sisters, Dorothy
Landrum of Orange, Texas, Willa Mae Leone of Keithville, Margreet
Lovelady of Zwolle and Rose Leroy of Longview, Texas; eight
grandchildren; and many nieces and nephews.

  Rader Funeral Homes Kilgore, TX