From the Lake Charles American Press, Nov 19, 1997
Funeral services for Lynda M. Carlberg, 53, of Moss
Bluff, will be at 10 a.m. Thursday, Nov. 20, in St.
Luke-Simpson United Methodist Church. The Revs.
Jim Humphreys and Mark Holland will officiate.
Graveside services will be at 4 p.m. Thursday in
Strange Methodist Church Cemetery in Saline under
direction of Johnson Funeral Home. Visitation is
from 4-10 p.m. today in the funeral home and from
9 a.m. Thursday in the church. Mrs. Carlberg died
at 10:20 a.m. Monday, Nov. 17, 1997, in a local
hospital.
A native of Shreveport, she received
her Bachelor of Arts degree from Northwestern
State University in Natchitoches and her Master's
degree in Library Science from Louisiana State
University. She was a librarian in the Calcasieu
Parish schools from 1966-67 and then a reference
librarian at East Texas University, a teacher in
the Morehouse Parish School system, branch librarian
in the Ouachita Parish Public Library, and from
1972-78 was Director of the Bossier-Red River Parish
Libraries.
In 1978 she became director of the
Calcasieu Parish Library System. Mrs. Carlberg
was a member of the Louisiana State Board of
Library Examiners and had served as president since
1990. She was a past president of the Louisiana Library
Association and had also served as the associations'
parliamentarian and Legislative Network, State Coordinator. She
was a member of the American Library Association, serving on
the program, services to the deaf, steering and by-laws and
building awards committees.
She was a member of the Southwest Library Association
and served on the SLICE Council and executive board.
She was a treasurer of Libraries Southwest, Inc.
Mrs. Carlberg was a member of the United Way allocation
and review panel; a member of the Literacy Council of
Southwest Louisiana; a former director, vice president
and president of the Family and Youth Counsel-ing Agency;
member and former officer of the Quota Club of Lake
Charles; former chairman of the Calcasieu Arts and
Humanities Advisory Panel; and a member of the Business
and Professional Women's Club. She was an active
member of St. Luke-Simpson United Methodist Church.
Survivors include her husband, Tore Carlberg; one
son, Kevin Carlberg of Bridge City, Texas; five
daughters, Jennifer Netherland of Moss Bluff,
Allison Ledet and Karen Monceaux, both of Lake
Charles, Jennifer Driggers of Baton Rouge and
Melissa Louviere of Greenville, S.C.; one brother,
Don Mills of Colorado Springs, Colo.; her father,
Donald Mills of Orlando, Flo.; and five grandchildren.
Memorials may be made to the Calcasieu Parish Library,
Memorial Fund or the Literacy Council of Southwest
Louisiana, the family said.
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