Obituary of JOE LOUIS HART, LaSalle Parish, Louisiana

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From The Jena Times - Olla Tullos Signal; Jena, LaSalle Parish, La.  
Microfilm at the LaSalle Parish Library located in Jena, LaSalle Parish, La.

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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Date:  March 6, 1958

Headline:  Goodpine High School Teacher Dies; Rites Are Held Last Sunday

Joe Louis Hart, 31, instructor in mathematics and science at Goodpine 
(colored) High School for the past six years, was buried last Sunday at the 
Webster Cemetery of Goodpine, following services held at the Mars Hill 
Baptist Church.

The popular young high school teacher reported died at his home Wednesday 
morning, Feb. 26, of a heart attack.  He had been sick with the flu some two 
weeks and had just returned to his classes Monday of last week, it was 
reported.

A graduate of Grambling College and a veteran of the U. S. Army, seeing 
services overseas, he was formerly married to Isabel Cooks, by whom he had 
three sons.

He is survived by his second wife, the former Ruth Bouie of Jena; four sons, 
Philmore, Joe, W. A. and Demetrius, all of Jena; his mother, Susie Nesby Hart 
and his father, Willie Hart, both of Jena; two brothers, Robert of Jena, and 
Arthur of Los Angeles, Calif., four sisters, Mellie Lee Parker of Manhattan, 
Kan., Willie Bell Davis of California, and Evangeline and Lorender Hart, both 
of Jena.

An active church worker, he was a deacon and secretary of the Mars Hill 
Baptist Church for a number of years.