Geneva "Dink" Scarbrough Dukes' Obituary
Funeral services for Geneva “Dink” Scarbrough Dukes, 94, of DeRidder, LA, will be held at 3P.M., Saturday, December 4, 2010, in Labby Memorial Funeral Home Chapel in DeRidder with Rev. Louis Blakenbaker officiating. Burial will follow in Beauregard Cemetery in DeRidder under the direction of Labby Memorial Funeral Home. Visitation will be from 1P.M. until 3 P.M., Saturday, December 4, 2010, at the funeral home. “Dink” passed away Tuesday, November 30, 2010, in Baton Rouge, LA.
Born in Dry Prong, LA, she moved to DeRidder and was a graduate of DeRidder High School. She was a retired real estate agent and homemaker. She also taught in the Head Start Program. She was a very active and long time member of the First Baptist Church of DeRidder where she taught Sunday School and sang in the senior choir. She loved to garden.
She is survived by one son, Charles E. “Butch” Scarbrough and wife Neva of DeRidder; two daughters, Elizabeth Gibbens and husband Pendrey of Baton Rouge, LA, and Sue Holtsclaw of The Village, FL; sister Louise Fletcher of Lake Charles, LA; seven grandchildren, Stan and Greg Gibbens, Ken and Kevin Roark, Charli Honas, Lee Anna Leach and Marshall Carmen; six step-children, Norman Dukes, Nelda Welch, Evon Rodgers, Evelyn Robinson, Janice Cook and Nancy Massey; and ten great grandchildren. The family requests in lieu of flowers that donations be made to the First Baptist Church of DeRidder Building Fund.
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