Obituaries:  George F. Tarver, Sabine Parish       T-616
Source:  Sabine Index, Many, La., Jan 8, 1970
Submitted by: Carl Dilbeck
              carlrad@earthlink.net




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George F. Tarver

  Funeral services for George F. Tarver, 74, of Hornbeck, were
held Jan. 6, at 1 p.m., in Plainview Baptist Church, with the
Rev. Aubrey Boswell, and the Rev. Lynn Jones officiating. Burial
was in the Holly Grove Cemetery near Anacoco.

  Mr. Tarver died in Many, Jan. 3, after a short illness.

  Mr. Tarver, a retired school teacher, received his B.A. in
mathematics, at Louisiana State Normal College in Natchitoches.
He did post-graduate study at the University of Oklahoma, and
Washington State University, Northwestern State College of
Natchitoches, and attended Louisiana College. He was a classroom
teacher and principal in Natchitoches, Sabine, and Vernon
parishes, until his retirement in 1950, and taught in the states
of Texas and Washington for several years. He was very active in
Red Cross, and Boy Scout work.

  He was a veteran of World War I, a Master Mason, and member of
the Plainview Baptist Church.

  Surviving relatives include his wife, Mrs. Lena Tarver of
Hornbeck; a daughter, Mrs. Charles Thornton of Baton Rouge; his
mother, Mrs. J. C. Tarver of Kisatchie; four sons, Gordan Floyd
of Beaumont, Donald George of Pullman, Wash., John Reed of
Washington, D. C., and Milton L. of U. S. Armed Forces, Korea;
three brothers, Luther of Natchitoches, John, and Alva, both of
Many; a sister, Mrs. Lizzie Jackson of Simpson; and 11
grandchildren.