Subject: Dick Tarver |
Author:
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Date Posted: 20:47:06 08/18/06 Fri
John Curtis ‘Dick’ Tarver
John Curtis “Dick” Tarver, 85, of Brookhaven, died there Aug. 17, 2006, at King’s Daughters Medical Center.
Visitation is 5 to 8 tonight at Brookhaven Funeral Home. Services will be 11 a.m. Saturday at the funeral home chapel. Burial will be in Easthaven Cemetery in Brookhaven.
Mr. Tarver was born June 21, 1921, in Lincoln County to John and Bertha King Tarver.
He was retired from South Central Bell Telephone Co. after 37 years and was a member of New Sight Baptist Church. He was a veteran of the U.S. Army and served during World War II.
He was a member of Veterans of Foreign Wars, American Legion and Telephone Pioneers, where he was past president three times of the Brookhaven and McComb Chapter. He was also a member of LLL at First Baptist Church, Joy Club and New Sight, and a former member of Lincoln Chorale.
Mr. Tarver was preceded in death by his parents, two sisters and two brothers.
Survivors include his wife of 65 years, Lillian Jobe Tarver of Brookhaven; nieces, Laura Helen Massey of Bogue Chitto, Thelma Jean Jackson and her husband Tommy of Liberty, and Betty Jean Dykes, all of Brookhaven, and Glenda Tanksley and her husband Don of Lorman; one sister, Irene Starkey of Jena, La.; and a host of nieces and nephews
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