Obituaries:  Mr. Huey Franklin Olliff, Sabine Parish       O-410
Source:  Sabine Index, Many, La., Jul 12, 2000
Submitted by: Carl Dilbeck
              carlrad@earthlink.net




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Mr. Huey Franklin Olliff

  Mr. Huey Franklin Olliff, 64, of Pleasant Hill, died Wednesday,
July 5, 2000, at Sabine Medical Center.

  Funeral services were held at 10 a.m., Saturday, July 8, at
Warren Meadows Funeral Home, with interment following at
Springridge Cemetery. Tom Welch, Louis Estes, Jerry Jackson, and
Warren Williams officiated.

  Huey Franklin Olliff was born in Pleasant Hill on Sept. 10,
1935, to Annie Moore Olliff, and the late Frank Olliff.

  Mr. Olliff attended school in Pleasant Hill, graduating from
Pleasant Hill High School with honors in both academics and
athletics. He attended McNeese State University on a basketball
scholarship, where he was a member of the 1956 National
Championship Team. While at McNeese, he obtained a degree in
Geology, a field that served him in over three decades of
employment. Upon graduating, he enlisted in the United States
Army, where he served as an M. P. Upon his discharge in 1960, he
returned to Lake Charles, where he began his career with P. P. G.
Chemical Co., a career that would last over two decades.

  In 1962, he married Eloise Myers. In 1962, Huey and Eloise began
worshiping at Blvd. Church of Christ in Lake Charles. In 1967,
they welcomed into this world their son, Charles Lee. In 1968, he
began a long service as a deacon in the Blvd. Church of Christ.
In 1971, they welcomed into this world their daughter, Allyson
Leigh. In 1982, he retired from P. P. G. as the Field Foreman.
After his retirement, the family moved to Pearland, Texas, where
he went into a private business. While in Pearland, he served as
an elder in the Pearland Church of Christ.

  In 1992, Huey and Eloise returned to Pleasant Hill, and Huey
began working for the La. Office of Family Support, serving in
their Sabine and Natchitoches Parish offices. He continued his
work in the Church of Christ, serving as a Sunday School teacher
in the Zwolle Church of Christ until his health no longer allowed
him to do so. Huey also has four grandchildren he dearly loved.

  Survivors include his widow, Eloise Olliff of Pleasant Hill;
mother, Annie L. Olliff of Many; two sisters, Essie R. Cook of
New Orleans, and Janet Counts of Pleasant Hill; one son, Charles
Olliff, and wife, Linda, of Lumberton, Texas; one daughter,
Allyson Sheumaker, and husband, Craig of Minot, N. D.; four
grandchildren, Brent Johnson, Keith Johnson, Carly Olliff, and
Blake Sheumaker.

  Pallbearers were David Armstrong, Lynn Coe, Vester Cooper,
Randal Gandy, Harold Guillory, and Von Knight.

  Warren Meadows, Many, La.