Paul Edward Darden

Darden

Graveside services for Paul Edward Darden 86, of Linden, will be held at 11 a.m. Wednesday, June 5, in New Colony Cemetery with James Forte and Dwain Curri officiating. The family will receive friends from 6 to 8 p.m. Tuesday at Reeder-Davis-Schindler Funeral Home in Linden.

Mr. Darden was born Nov. 24, 1926, in Bell County, to Walter Carl and Emma Louise Parker Darde Bell and died Saturday, June 1, in Linden. He worked at Red River Army Depot and Stanco Manufacturing. Mr. Darden was a Baptist.

He was preceded in death by his first wife, Vada Melton Darden; his parents; a brother, Walter Darden; and two sisters, Ruth Lovorn and Dorace Howell.
Survivors include his wife, Ruby Darden of Texarkana; a daughter, and son-in-law, Dorothy and Charles Lineberger of Hughes Springs; three granddaughters, and their spouses, Julie and Jason Ballard of Batesville, Ark., Jenny Pynes of Hallsville and Carla and Brian Fulghan also of Hallsville; great-grandchildren, Mattie Ballard, Jordan and Joshua Pynes, and Makenzie and Kyler Fulgham; a brother, Roy Darden; two sisters, Joan Shepherd and Marietta Mesecke; also, numerous other family members and friends.