Dr. Kenneth Joseph Darcy, MD

Memorial services for Dr. Kenneth Joseph Darcy, MD will be held at St. Anthony of Padua Catholic Church on Saturday, May 14, 2016 at 11:00 am in Natchitoches, LA with Fr. John O’Brien officiating. Dr. Kenneth Darcy, 76 years of age, passed away May 7, 2016. He was born January 12, 1940 in Lorain, OH. He grew up and finished school in and around Lorain, OH; graduating from Lorain High in 1957. He attended Bowling Green State University for a few years; then joined the U.S. Navy and was trained as a corpsman. He returned to BGSU in 1963, and graduated in January of 1965. He entered Loyola University Stritch School of Medicine in Chicago, IL shortly thereafter. He married his sweet wife, Judith Allyne Ann Springer in 1967, and graduated medical school in 1969. He completed his internship and residency at Children's Hospital (he was chief resident in 1972) in Columbus, OH, and entered into private practice in Ludington, MI. He was recruited in 1975 by the National Health Service Corps, a division of the U.S. Public Health Service. He served in S.E. Kentucky as the first Pediatrician for Mountain Health Service. He was loaned to the Arkansas Health Services from 1977 until 1980 to train Pediatric Nurse Practitioners and set up clinics in rural Arkansas. He monitored and advised the clinics throughout the state. In 1980, Capt. Alfred E. Krake, MD, asked his friend to join him in Colfax, LA, where he stayed for eight years. In 1988, he served Migrant Health Services in Alligan County, MI. After a year of snow from October until May, he accepted an assignment to be Director of Medicine at Saufley Field in Pensacola, FL. He retired from public health services in 1994 and returned to LA, where he loved the people, the fishing and the long gardening months. Retirement meant coming to Natchitoches and working in the Outpatient Clinic, as well as in Boyce and Montgomery. In 2003, he became the Medical Director for Natchitoches Parish Schools, retiring once more in 2014 when he became disabled. He lived a very rewarding life; he loved his family, his faith, and all of the wonderful friends who would visit him often. He is survived by his wife, Judy Darcy of Natchitoches, LA; his grandchildren, Kenneth P. Darcy of Natchitoches, LA and Kim Ayres and her husband Michael of Campti, LA; his great grandchildren, Kallie, Josie, and Daylon Ayres; and his sister, Paulette Harper and huisband James of Ahwahnee, CA. He was preceded in death by his son, David Darcy; and his parents, John Matthew Darcy and Rose Marie Garwell Darcy.