Ben Duncan Jr.

Published 12:00 am Sunday, May 24, 2009

BASTROP, La. — Services for Ben Gilbert Duncan Jr., 78, of Bastop, La., who died Friday, May 22, 2009, will be at 10 a.m. Monday at the chapel of Golden Funeral Home in Bastrop.

Burial will follow in Duncan Cemetery in Mangham, La., under the direction of Golden Funeral Home.

Visitation will be from 5 p.m. to 8 p.m. today at the funeral home.

Mr. Duncan was born Feb. 4, 1931 in Richland Parish. He was employed at the Natchez branch of International Paper Mill from 1951 to 1995.

He is survived by his wife Mary Duncan of Bastrop; two sons, Tim Duncan of West Monroe, La. and Terry Gunter of Birmingham, Ala.; one daughter, Libby Rankin of Somerville, Tenn.; four step-daughters, Brenda Turner of Bastrop, Tina Strobel of Gulf Breeze, Fla., Mathilde Halcomb of Baton Rouge and Lisa Brooks Halcomb of Wisner, La.; and numerous grandchildren and great-grandchildren.