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Lake Charles America Press
Paper Date: Sat, 5 Dec 1992; Pg 2
Obituary: James Burnell Heard

JAMES BURNELL HEARD

DEQUINCY - Funeral services for James Burnell Heard, 70, will be at 2
p.m. Saturday, Dec. 5, in Northside Baptist Church.
The Revs. Bob Colquiette and Johnny Womack will officiate. Burial will
be Perkins Cemetery under the direction of Snider Funeral Home.
Visitation will be from 8:30 a.m. until services in the funeral home.
Mr. Heard died at 4:10 p.m. Thursday, Dec. 3, 1992 in a Lake Charles
hospital.
A lifelong resident of DeQuincy, he was a correctional officer, retired
from Louisiana Correctional Institute after 20 years. A member and
deacon of Northside Baptist Church, he was an Army veteran of World War
II and a member of the American Legion, Disabled American Veterans.
Survivors are his wife, Mrs. Willie Mae Heard; two sons, William L.
Moses of Groves, Texas, and Truman Moses of Mesa, Ariz.; two daughters,
Lois Zimmerman of Lake Charles and Eva Joyce Bishop of Huntsville, Ala.;
one sister, Betty Fern Hoosier of Alexandria; two brothers, Carl Heard
of DeQuincy and Hilliard Heard of Alexandria; one halfsister, Mary Poole
of Singer; one halfbrother, Allen Heard of DeQuincy; one stepsister,
Billie Jean LeBleu of DeQuincy; one stepbrother, Kenneth Ray Dunn of
Singer; his stepmother, Mrs. Jeanette Whatley of DeQuincy; 12
grandchildren and 23 great-grandchildren.