ST. TAMMANY PARISH, LA. 

Obituary for: HERRON, OLIVE RUTH “EVE” 

Submitted by: Louis Lavedan. 

Source: The St. Tammany News, St. Tammany, La.

Posted: Wednesday, May 2, 2012 

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Olive Ruth “Eve” Herron was born in La Fountain, Kan., June 19, 1924 to the 
Rev. Glenn H. and Edna McGinnis Webb. 

Eve passed into eternal life April 24, 2012, at the Joni Fair Hospice House in 
Pueblo, Colo. 

She spent her early years in Kansas and with her family in pastorates in 
Weiser, Idaho and Burns, Ore. 
She was a graduate of Northwest Nazarene Academy in 1942, and the Northwest 
Nazarene College in 1948. 
She took time out from her college studies during World War II to work at 
shipyards building aircraft carriers in Portland, Ore. 
Highlights of her college years included working in the college bookstore and 
touring through Idaho, Montana, the Dakotas, and Minnesota with a ladies 
quartet, “The Melodies” in the summer of 1947. 

On Aug. 24, 1948 Eve married Hubert Wesley Herron at the College Church of the 
Nazarene in Nampa, Idaho. 

After her graduate work in education, Eve taught home economics at schools in 
Oakland and Eagle, Ore. 
Hugh worked as an engineer with the Boeing and Martin Marietta companies in the 
NASA space program. 
So her family years were spent in Washington, Arizona, Colorado, and Alabama. 
While in Huntsville, Ala., Eve taught U.S. history, civics, and French courses 
at the junior high. 

After Hugh’s retirement, he and Eve joined Honaker Reality. They later bought 
Honaker Reality and changed the name to Slidell Reality. Where they enjoyed 
serving the people of St. Tammany Parish for more than 20 years.

Eve was a life-long member of the Church of the Nazarene and was still a 
charter member of the Slidell Church. 
She loved music and choirs and was always active in music programs and the 
church’s World Missions Society. 
She and Hugh participated in the organization and construction of two home 
mission churches. One located in Madison, Ala., and the other in Slidell. 

She loved cooking and entertaining. She was a top-notch seamstress and tailor; 
making clothes for family and friends, including wedding dresses and gowns.

Hugh passed away in 1996 after his courageous battle with Parkinson’s Disease. 
Following Hugh’s death, Eve relocated to Colorado with her eldest son Kent. 

This allowed her to be near her daughter Glenda and son-in-law Donald. 
Eve resided in Canon City, Denver, and Pueblo areas in Colorado until July 2011 
when her illness placed her at the Fowler Health Care Center. 

Kent and Eve spent happy years working with Hugh’s sister Rebeca in her 
business in Denver. 
She spent a lot of her later years reading, studying, and writing on such 
topics as prayer, healing, and prophecy. 
She had returned to Kent’s home in Fowler shortly before her passing.

Eve was preceded in death by her parents; her husband; her brother and sisters-
in-law, Paul and Margie Wordsworth; her brother Kenneth Webb; her sister 
Jeraldine Mangum; a favorite aunt, Bertha Taves; her son-in-law Donald Woolsey; 
and brothers-in-law, Delmer Cook, Thomas Hite, Weldon Wood, Don Herron, Lloyd 
Hubbard, Edward Arnold, and sister-in-law Kaye Bartlow. 

Eve is survived by her sons Kent D. Herron of Fowler, Colo., and Michael 
(Carolyn) Herron of Tomball, Texas; daughter Glenda Woolsey of Pueblo, Colo.; 
her grandchildren to include Leslie Herron of Barstow, Calif.; Banjo Herron of 
Pearl River; Brian Herron of Slidell, and Robbie Herron of Mandevill; great-
grandchildren Amanda Kuestermeyer of Barstow, Calif., and Emma Rose Herron of 
Mandeville; her sisters, Verna Wood of Nampa, Idaho, Nita Hubbard of Chico, 
Calif.; sisters-in-law Raebeca Herron and Ruth Cook of Denver, Edith Arnold of 
Portland, Ore., Lois Moland of Hahira, Ga., and Pat Herron of Seattle, Wash., 
as well as numerous and beloved nieces and nephews.

Eve will be interned at the Forest Lawn Cemetery in Slidell May, 2012.

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