CAPE GIRARDEAU -- Funeral service for Loy V. Barks, 1529 Kurre Lane, will be held at 1 p.m. Thursday at McCombs Funeral Chapel in Jackson. The Rev. Jerry Statler will officiate, with burial in Memorial Park.
Friends may call at the funeral home from 4-8 tonight. A Masonic service will be held at 7.
Barks, 74 years old, died Monday, Dec. 3, 1990.
He was born March 10, 1916, at Sedgewickville, son of Daniel L. and Janie Bollinger Barks. He and the former Lillie Wallis were married April 16, 1940, at Jackson.
The Barks moved to Cape in 1944. He was a pipefitter and had worked with construction contractors on various military bases. He also owned Barks Conoco Station on Morgan Oak from 1954-57.
Barks was a member of Pipefitters Local 344 in Oklahoma City, Okla., Grace United Methodist Church 50 years, Harold O. Grauel Masonic Lodge 672, Order of Eastern Star Chapter 60, TPA, and was a 32nd Degree Scottish Rite.
Survivors include his wife; a son, Danny Barks of Cape; a daughter, Janis Reimann of Cape; two sisters, Eula Statler of Berthoud, Colo., June Bollinger of Loveland, Colo., and three grandchildren.
He was preceded in death by a grandson.
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