Duane Stark, an 83-year-old resident of Mercer, died on Sunday, March 31, 2019 at 5:50 p.m. at Saint Luke’s Northland Hospital in Kansas City.
Graveside services will be held at 10 a.m. on Monday, April 8, 2019 at the Evergreen Cemetery in Lineville, IA.
There is no scheduled family visitation at Whitaker-Eads Funeral Home in Trenton.
Mr. Stark was born on Jan. 31, 1936 at Lineville, the son of David Franklin and Margie Marie Nichols Stark. He attended Mercer School. He was retired from working on the Jim Witten farm, west of Edinburg.
He was marred in 1956 to Sharron Loveless. He was then married on Aug. 25, 1989 at Princeton to Elaine Marrs, who preceded him in death on Aug. 29, 2000.
He is survived by four daughters, Beverly J. Clinbeard, Cyndi Stark and Shannon J. Stark, all of Pottsboro, TX and M. Joyce Stark, Marcola, OR; one son, Darrell L. Stark of Idalou, TX; one sister, Wilma McAntosh of Mercer; one brother, Richard Stark of Mercer; five grandchildren; 12 step-grandchildren; nine great-grandchildren; and 18 step-great-grandchildren.
He was preceded in death by his parents; four sisters, Mary Stark, Thelma Stark, Margaret Foster and Myrtle Smith; and seven brothers, Hubert Stark, Robert Stark, Johnie Stark, Clifford Stark, Eugene Stark, Dorvin Stark and Kenneth Stark.
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