Obituary of Howard R. Hayes, LaSalle Parish, Louisiana

Copied and Submitted by :Kathy LeMay Kelly, P.O. Box 219, Trout, La. 71371

From The Jena Times - Olla Tullos Signal; Jena, LaSalle Parish, La.
Micro Film at the LaSalle Parish Library, Located in Jena, LaSalle Parish, La.
July 13, 1977


Many Thanks to The Times - Signal and to the LaSalle Parish Library for
allowing the following to be added to the Archives.




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H. R. Hayes of Monroe Died; Rites Sunday

Howard R. Hayes, 88, prominent businessman and president of Lumbermen's Supply
Co., Inc. of Monroe, died Saturday at St. Francis Medical Center in Monroe
after a lengthy illness.

Funeral services were at 4 p.m. Sunday at Kilpatrick Funeral Home Chapel in
Monroe with the Revs. Earl C. Whitsitt and Nicolas D. Pearce officiating.

Burial will be in Memorial Park Mausoleum.

Mr. Hayes was born on Freestate Plantation in South Caroline and moved with
his family to Latta, S.C. in 1902. After attending Hartsville Military
Academy, he trained as a mortgage broker in Newport, VA.

He came to Shreveport, in 1909, where he and his partner operated a mortgage
and real estate office. He spent a brief time in New Mexico in the cattle
busines, but returned to his business in Shreveport. Later he operated
sawmills near Cotton Valley, where he established a retail lumber yard uring
the oil boom.

At one time he operated a chain of lumber yards in North Louisiana and Texas.
H.R. Lumber Co. In West Monroe was founded in 1927. Lumbermen's Supply Co.,
Inc. in Monroe was established in 1934, the first wholesale building in
Northeast Louisiana. Mr. Hayes had resided in Monroe continuously since March
1942.

Survivors include his widow, Mrs. Sue Davis Hayes; three daughters, Mrs.
Joseph Cecil Brown, Jr. Mrs. Reynolds Trippett Faulk Jr. and Mrs. James Pascal
Norris Jr., all of Monroe, one half-sister Mrs. Frank Nascimento of Latto,
S.C.; nine grandchildren and ...... (This is all of the obit that I have.)