Herbert Leon "Tilly" Carver, Vernon Parish Louisisana
Submitted by Belford E. Carver



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From The Shreveport Times, Friday, November 8, 2002. 
(Also published on the 9th) 

HERBERT LEON "TILLY" CARVER 
SHREVEPORT, LA - Funeral services for Herbert Leon "Tilly" Carver, 92, 
will be held at 1 p.m. Saturday, November 9, 2002 at Rose-Neath's Southside 
Chapel. Officiating will be Rev. Larry Earl, pastor of First Church of God 
assisted by Rev. Billy Franks, pastor of Oakmont Church of God. Interment 
will follow in Centuries Memorial Park. 
The family will receive friends from 6 p.m until 8 p.m. Friday, November 8, 
2002 at the funeral home. 
Mr. Carver, a longtime resident of Shreveport, was born August 30, 1910 in 
Simpson, LA and passed away Tuesday, November 5, 2002 in Shreveport, LA. He 
was a retired US Letter Carrier, member of First Church of God, where he was 
active in teaching the Golden Age Sunday school class, going on various 
mission projects and a member of the Shreveport West Camp of Gideons 
International. Mr. Carver was instrumental in the early development of the 
Church of God camp ground near Pollock, in Grant Parish and in 1997, he was 
given special recognition for that work at the annual State Camp Meeting. He 
moved from Leesville to Shreveport in 1923 and in 1967 helped organize the 
first class reunion of the Class of 1927 of C. E. Byrd High School. Mr. Carver 
served in the US Merchant Marines in World War II and also served in the 
Louisiana National Guard. He was also active in the distributioin of 
magazines at the VA Hospital. 
He was preceded in death by his parents, Rev. J.G. and Rev. Lillie Carver; 
two brothers, Cecil and Everett; sister, Maud, first wife, Doris Marie LaBorde 
and second wife, Martha Gwin Gates. 
Mr. Carver is survived by his wife, Bonnie Ross Carver; son, Belford E. Carver 
of Hammond, LA; daughter E. Faye Tucker of Anchorage, AK; step dauthers, Yvonne 
Dirks of Greenwood, LA and Connie Strange of Houston, TX; four grandchilden, 
(ten great grandchildren); two step grandchildren and numerous nieces and nephews. 
The family requests that memorials be made to the First Church of God, 6808 
Jefferson Paige Road, Shreveport, LA 71119; the Gideons International or to the 
Guest House on Normandie Drive.