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Heres, Hilda Morgan       16 Sep 2006    Sep 2006    Jerry Nelson

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Obituary published in The Advocate (Baton Rouge) on: 9/16/2006

HERES, HILDA MORGAN
Hilda Morgan Heres was born in Port Barre on Dec. 11, 1908, and departed on 
Thursday, Sept. 14, 2006, in Bastrop. Graveside service for Mrs. Hilda 
Morgan Heres, age 97, of Bastrop, formerly of Baton Rouge, will be held at 
2 p.m. Sunday, Sept. 17, at All Faiths Chapel Mausoleum at the Resthaven 
Gardens of Memory in Baton Rouge, with the Rev. Doug Baker officiating. 
Arrangements are under the direction of Cox Funeral Home, Bastrop. She was 
preceded in death by her husband, Harold Heres; her parents, T.C. Morgan 
and Corinne Griffin Morgan; and six siblings. Mrs. Heres was a longtime 
resident of Kentwood, where she graduated from high school. She then 
attended Northwestern State College and taught school a year in Beauregard 
Parish. She met and married Harold Heres in New Orleans while she was in 
training as a nurse at the Hotel Dieu, where her two daughters, Ann and 
Geraldine were born. During World War II, while she and her husband were 
living in Miami, she worked as a dress designer. When they returned to 
Baton Rouge, Mrs. Heres became active in volunteer work. She was a life 
member of Our Lady of Lake Hospital Auxiliary, serving as president for 
two years, gift shop manager for eight years and director of volunteers for 
two years. She was also a life member of the Baton Rouge General Hospital 
Auxiliary, serving as president for a year and gift shop manager for four 
years. She was the president of Volunteers of America Auxiliary, and for 
many years served as clothing chairman and directed two very successful 
bazaars for the benefit of underprivileged children. Mrs. Heres also served 
on the board of the American Red Cross and was a member of the Broadmoor 
Presbyterian Church in Baton Rouge. Her greatest ambition was fulfilled in 
1975, when with 12 members she organized the Patchwork Pelican Quilting 
Club, Chapter XXVII, Louisiana No. 1, affiliated with the National Quilting 
Association, Greenbelt, Md. Mrs. Heres is survived by her two daughters, 
Ann Heres Barham of Bastrop and Geraldine Heres Hightower of Homer; five 
grandchildren, Pamela David Harris and husband Michael of Memphis, Tenn., 
Kathryn Hightower Hightower and husband Bill of Homer, Claire Barham 
Anderson of Baton Rouge, Henry Alfred Barham III and wife Jeanne of 
Metairie, and Emilia Barham McCue and husband Robert of Bastrop; 11 
great-grandchildren; a great-great-grandchild; and a special niece, 
Shirley Morgan Coleman of Montgomery, Ala. In lieu of flowers, memorial 
donations may be made to the United Methodist Children's Home in Ruston, 
or to the Organ Fund of the First United Methodist Church of Bastrop. 

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