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Lifelong resident, former Reeves police officer, and Allen Parrish Sheriffs Department Deputy,  Darrell "Soul" Semien, died Sunday, January 24. He was a dear friend and fellow committee member of Oberlins Perfect Ten. We are devastated by his loss and offer Karla, his kids and family our deepest most heartfelt condolences. Darrell will be missed. He was a devoted husband and loving father who served his community with pride as a Deputy Sherriff. When he passed, never in a million years did his...

Updated Jan 29, 2021 "Wow, what a slap in the face," his widow, Karla Semien, stated. A Louisiana cemetery barred the burial of a Black sheriff’s deputy last week because of its “whites-only” sales restriction. The widow of Darrell Semien, who died last Sunday, was stunned to learn that Oaklin Springs Cemetery in Allen Parish had such a policy that dated back to a 1950s sales contract. “Wow what a slap in the face,” Karla Semien wrote in a Facebook post: Nearly a quarter of the reside...

After a Black man was denied a spot in a ‘Whites-only’ cemetery in Louisiana, the graveyard has apologized Teo Armus Karla and Darrell Semien are pictured on their wedding day. When she tried to bury Darrell in a cemetery in Allen, La. this week, Karla was told they would not accept her husband because he was Black. Before Darrell Semien died on Sunday of bladder cancer, the 55-year-old Black man left his family with a single dying wish: He wanted to be buried near their ...

BBC News Published image captionThe Oaklin Spring Cemetery has existed since the 1950s, when racial discrimination was legal A Louisiana cemetery has apologised after refusing to bury a local black police officer because of a decades-old provision allowing only white people. The Oaklin Springs Cemetery board met on Thursday to change its sales contract after an outcry over the "white human beings" rule. Officer Darrell Semiens widow called it a "slap in the face" to be denied a plot "because he...

She told the station the family met with the woman who sold plots. As she recalled to KLFY, "First me and one of my other sons got out of the car when she drove up, and hes white, and she said she was sorry for our loss, and I told her, Thank you. And before I could say anything else, the rest of them started coming out of the car, and she looked at them, and then she looked at me and says, Were going to have to have a discrepancy. She said, Were not going to be able to sell you a plot."

The board of the Oaklin Springs Cemetery has since repealed the clause. By Story at a glance Oaklin Springs Cemetery in Oberlin, southwest Louisiana, declined to bury Officer Darrell Semien due to his race. The issue of racism and segregation has appeared in U.S. cemeteries for centuries. The board of a cemetery in Oberlin, La., has issued an apology after it denied to bury a Black sheriff’s deputy in light of an arcane rule only allowing white persons to be buried within ...

By Cherranda Smith Jan 29, 2021 Last week, the widow of a Black sheriff’s deputy was denied the sale of a plot for her husband because of a “whites-only” sales policy.  Karla Semien, whose husband, Darrell Semien, died Sunday (January 24), said the Oaklin Springs Cemetery in Allen Parish, Louisiana refused to sell her a plot to bury her husband. Darrell Semien died of cancer and had previously requested to be buried at Oaklin Springs because it was near his home, his family told news o...

Widow Says She Was Prevented From Burying Husband at Whites Only Cemetery Newsweek 1/29/2021 Tom Batchelor © Matthew Lloyd/Getty Images File photo of graves and tombstones. Board members at the cemetery said they would make a decision on Thursday to resolve the issue. A grieving Louisiana woman has said she was told she could not bury her husband at a cemetery near his home because it was for "whites only." Karla Semien, whose husband Darrell Semien died on Sunday after bei...

Deputy Darrell Semien (Allen Parish Sheriffs Facebook) (Allen Parish Sheriffs Facebook) "She had this paperwork in her hand that she said was drawn up 70-plus years ago," Shayla told news station KATC. "If we really wanted to have him buried here, we would have to get board approval because he was a colored man." His family said they were shocked not only that the discriminatory rule was part of the cemetery’s contract, but also by how the woman handled the situation. "[She said]...

Louisiana family denied burial plot in ‘whites only’ cemetery The graveyard has since changed its by-laws Oberlin cemetery is whites only By Jennifer Lott | January 27, 2021 at 9:15 PM CST - Updated January 31 at 4:02 PM OBERLIN, La. (KPLC) - When the wife of a deceased Allen Parish Sheriff’s Office deputy went to meet with a representative of a cemetery, she was shocked to hear they wouldn’t let her husband be buried there. As it turns out, Oaklin Springs Cemetery in O...