Funeral services for Mrs.Thelma Marie Dark Ford, 84, of Monroe, LA. will be held at 2:00 p.m. Sunday, June 4, 2017 at Kilpatrick Funeral Home Chapel West Monroe. Interment to follow at Springhill Baptist Church Cemetery near Wyatt, LA. Rev. Randy Burdeaux will be officiating.Mrs. Ford was born November 29, 1932 in Jonesboro, LA, and passed away May 30, 2017 in Monroe, LA. Mrs. Ford was a homemaker and Pastor wife and a member of New Bethany Baptist Church. Mrs. Ford was preceded in death by her husband, Mack W. Ford; daughter, Janet Lewis; son, Douglas Gilmore.Mrs. Ford is survived by her daughters, Gwen Krotch and husband Rusty, Maxine Ford, Robbie Johnson and husband Tim, Shelia Mixon and husband Tim, Thelia Sutton and Penny King; sister, Inez Reed; brother, Jerry Dark; 19 grandchildren and 33 great grandchildren and 2 great great grandchildren.Pallbearers will be Bobby Jarrell, Stephen Jarrell, Jeremy Sutton, Darrell Penley, Caleb Johnson and Joshua Johnson.Visitation will be held from 12:00 noon until service time Sunday at Kilpatrick Funeral Home- West Monroe.