Darst Funeral
Is Held Today
Brief but impressive funeral services were held this afternoon at the Presbyterian church for Edward Lewis Darst, Pulaski county school superintendent, who passed away early Sunday morning following an extended illness.
The services were in charge of Dr. Frank P. Anderson, pastor. Burial was in the Dublin cemetery.
Mr. Darst, superintendent of the Pulaski county schools since 1909, died at the Pulaski hospital as a result of injuries sustained in an automobile accident near Fort Chiswell several weeks ago. He was apparently regaining his usual vigorous health when a throat trouble developed and the end came quickly.
He was the son of James H. Darst and Margaret Trolinger Darst and was born at Dublin January 11, 1867, and attended the public schools and graduated with high honors at Virginia Military Institute with the degrees of B.S., and C.E., and was a sub-professor in that institution teaching mathematics and military science, 1887-1888.
He has been an instructor in several colleges and was also connected with the engineering department of the Norfolk and Western railway.
He was active in the work of the Red Cross and Kiwanis and was a member of the Virginia Zeta and Kappa Sigma Kappa fraternities, and a member of the Masonic Order and Royal Arcanum.
On November 28, 1893, he married Miss Ellen T. Gilmer who died February 17, 1920, and of the marriage there survives Edward Gilmer Darst, of Salem, and James Henry Darst, of Pulaski.
December 19, 1930, he married Miss Mary F. Turner, of Franklin county, Va., who survives.
He was a teacher of a bible class up to the time of his accident and had long been an elder in the Presbyterian church.
He possessed many talents, but chief enjoyments were in promoting educational work and in the upbuilding of religious work among the people of his section. He was a strong believer in doing thoroughly anything that he attempted to do, and was a man of very strong character. He had the greatest sympathy for the undernourished children and an open hand and an open heart often went to those in need that were never mentioned by him except in prayer.
Pulaski Southwest Times
December 23, 1935.
Darst Funeral
Is Held Today
Brief but impressive funeral services were held this afternoon at the Presbyterian church for Edward Lewis Darst, Pulaski county school superintendent, who passed away early Sunday morning following an extended illness.
The services were in charge of Dr. Frank P. Anderson, pastor. Burial was in the Dublin cemetery.
Mr. Darst, superintendent of the Pulaski county schools since 1909, died at the Pulaski hospital as a result of injuries sustained in an automobile accident near Fort Chiswell several weeks ago. He was apparently regaining his usual vigorous health when a throat trouble developed and the end came quickly.
He was the son of James H. Darst and Margaret Trolinger Darst and was born at Dublin January 11, 1867, and attended the public schools and graduated with high honors at Virginia Military Institute with the degrees of B.S., and C.E., and was a sub-professor in that institution teaching mathematics and military science, 1887-1888.
He has been an instructor in several colleges and was also connected with the engineering department of the Norfolk and Western railway.
He was active in the work of the Red Cross and Kiwanis and was a member of the Virginia Zeta and Kappa Sigma Kappa fraternities, and a member of the Masonic Order and Royal Arcanum.
On November 28, 1893, he married Miss Ellen T. Gilmer who died February 17, 1920, and of the marriage there survives Edward Gilmer Darst, of Salem, and James Henry Darst, of Pulaski.
December 19, 1930, he married Miss Mary F. Turner, of Franklin county, Va., who survives.
He was a teacher of a bible class up to the time of his accident and had long been an elder in the Presbyterian church.
He possessed many talents, but chief enjoyments were in promoting educational work and in the upbuilding of religious work among the people of his section. He was a strong believer in doing thoroughly anything that he attempted to do, and was a man of very strong character. He had the greatest sympathy for the undernourished children and an open hand and an open heart often went to those in need that were never mentioned by him except in prayer.
Pulaski Southwest Times
December 23, 1935.
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EDWARD L. DARST
JAN. 11, 1867
DEC. 22, 1935
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