NAME: Rev. Dr. John R. Garr

AGE:   52

RESIDENCE:   Texarkana, TX

DIED:     Friday, June 2, 2017

PLACE:    Local Hospice Facility

BACKGROUND

BIRTHDATE:    August 9, 1964

BIRTHPLACE:     Texarkana, TX

OCCUPATION:   Chaplin for the Department of Criminal Justice and Minister of Music for St. James Baptist Church and St. Paul United Methodist Church – taught school several years at TISD, LEISD and AISD

CHURCH AFFILIATION:   New Town Baptist Church

AFFILIATIONS:   Community Advocate, Member of the National Baptist Congress of Christian Education, Member of the Gospel Music Workshop Choir and the James Cleveland Workshop Choir and was Secretary of the Baptist Ministerial Alliance.

SURVIVORS

2 BROTHERS:    Roy Williams, Sr. of Texarkana, TX and Willie Arnett, Sr. of Houston, TX

3 SISTERS:  Lula Cornelius and Dorothy Johnson of Texarkana, TX and Pearlie Bell of Rowlett, TX

SERVICE:

TIME/DAY:  Saturday, June 10, 2017 at 11:00 A.M.

PLACE:  House of Refuge Church – W 6 ^th Street

OFFICIATING:    Rev. David Hardy

EULOGIST:  Rev. Larry Jordan

VISITATION:    Friday, June 9, 2017 from 5:00 – 7:00 P.M. at the House of Refuge

BURIAL:    Chapelwood Memorial Gardens