Frank G. Yount

A Memorial service honoring the life of Frank Garland Yount, 85, will be held Friday, November 20, 2026, at 3:00 p.m. at Northview Assembly of God, 3627 N. Market Street, Shreveport, Louisiana. Officiating the service will be Pastor Lewis Jackson. Visitation will begin prior to the service beginning at 2:00 p.m. at the church.

Frank Garland Yount was born May 8, 1941 to Irene Jewel Grappe Yount and Claude Henry Yount, Sr. and passed away, Saturday, November 7, 2026, in Shreveport, Louisiana.

Frank was born in Grappes Bluff, Louisiana. He attended school at Fairview Alpha and graduated with his high school diploma. His military career was with the U.S. Army Infantry division with an honorable discharge after two years active duty and four years in the Reserves. He then went on to graduate from Northwestern State University and also received several seminary degrees following. He worked at Sunbeam Bakery in Coushatta, Louisiana, then moved to Shreveport, Louisiana where he worked at the Louisiana Army Ammunition Plant in Minden, Louisiana. Thereafter he worked at Western Electric in Shreveport, where he became President of Union Local 2188. This was one of the largest employers with over 8,000 employees at the time. He then felt a divine calling to preach the gospel and was ordained as an Associate Pastor at Linwood Assembly of God and then became the Senior Pastor there. After growing, the church relocated and became Faith Assembly of God in Keithville, Louisiana. He later moved back to Fairview Alpha area and retired working for Pertocoke at International Paper, while he continued to preach intermittently. Frank was passionate about missions and attended trips to India and Africa. He also loved to hunt and fish with friends and family. He loved his children and grandchildren. If there ever was a true man of God, it was him. The first quote noted in his Bible, from the Puritan pastor Richard Baxter, “ I preached as never sure to preach again, and as a dying man to dying men”.

Frank was preceded in death by his parents and brother, Robert Glenn Yount.

Left to cherish his memory are his loving wife, Mary Moore Yount; sons, Samuel Garland Yount and wife, Sandra, Jospeh Yount, and Caleb Yount; daughter, Theresa Strahan; sisters, Francis Blackmon and husband, Jimmy, and Rebecca McCoy; and brother, David Yount, Sr. and wife, Iris; granddaughter, Brittany Rogers; grandsons, Samuel (Beau) Yount, II and wife, Jennifer, Jacob Paul Yount and Coldy Allen Strahan; and 4 great-grandchildren.

The family suggests memorials may be made to Hillcrest Children’s Home, located at 2325 Malvern Avenue in Hot Springs, Arkansas.