D. M. Stovall Sr., 77, of 5912 Southern Avenue, Shreveport, died at 4:30 p.m. Saturday following a long illness.

Funeral services were conducted at 2:30 p.m. Monday in the Cedar Grove Methodist Church. The Rev. Roy Mouser, pastor, was the officiating minister. He was assisted by the Rev. George Harbuck, pastor of the Broadmoor Methodist Church.

Burial was in Forest Park Cemetery under direction of the Rose-Neath Funeral Home.

Pallbearers were David McCarty, Danny McCarty, Johnny Stovall, Herbert Branen, Steven Stovall, Jimmy Ray Fouts, Paul Prince and Chuck Prince.

Mr. Stovall, a member of a North Louisiana pioneer family, was born in Stovall, Jackson Parish, Louisiana.

He was a member of the Cedar Grove Methodist Church where he served 14 years as superintendent of the Sunday School and for many years as chairman and member of the board of stewards.

While residing in Sykes [sic Sikes], he organized a Mehtodist [sic Methodist] Church and was superintendent of the Sunday School. He resided in Sykes [sic Sikes] for more than 20 years and came to Shreveport in 1931.

Mr. Stovall was a retired insurance agent who had worked for Rose-Neath.

Survivors include his widow and nine children, D. M. Stovall Jr. of Carthage, Mrs. Velda Prince of Shreveport, Mrs. Maurine McCarty of Rayville, La., Karl Stovall of Carthage, John Stovall of Carthage, the Rev. James L. Stovall of Baton Rouge, and Mrs. Sarah Fouts, Mrs. Evelyn Finuf, and Mrs. Carlotta Ferguson, all of Shreveport; three sisters, Mrs. Willie Dickerson of Chatham, La., Mrs. Mae Douglas of DeQuincy, La. and Mrs. Hazel Southard of Texas City, Texas; 28 grandchildren and one great-grandchild.

Among those attending the funeral service from Carthage were Mr. and Mrs. Roy Woodyard, Ferrin DuBose, Mr. and Mrs. Jerry Smith, Mrs. Bill Taylor, Mrs. Pete Haggard, Mrs. Jesse LeBlanc, Mabel Hill, Margaret Beaty, Mildred Alexander, Johnnie Herring, Mrs. M. P. Baker, W. C. Applegate, Milton Payne and Weldon Reeves, and Bob Brown, III. There probably were others whose names we do not have.

Published in The Panola Watchman (Carthage, TX), March 27, 1958