Obituaries: Joseph R. Heard, 1969, Winn Parish, LA.
Submitted by Greggory E. Davies, 120 Ted Price Lane, Winnfield, LA 71483
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From: March 6, 1969 Winn Parish Enterprise News-American

J. R. Heard, 83, Former Winn Resident, Dies

Joseph R. Heard, 83, of Hope, Arkansas, father of Mrs. L. W. Bower, Shreveport
Times fashion writer, and a member of a family long prominent in Louisiana,
died in his home early Saturday, March 1, 1969 on his 83rd birthday.

He and his wife had resided in Hope since moving there 47 years ago from
Winnfield.  A retired businessman, Mr. Heard was born on the family plantation
near Shiloh, Union Parish, March 1, 1866, the son of Lorraine Shearer and
John Richard Heard, descendants of pioneers in north Louisiana.

He was a nephew of the late Gov. William Wright Heard of Louisiana.

In addition to Mrs. Bower, his survivors include his widow, the former Daisy
Huffman, also a member of a family which long resided in Louisiana, another
daughter, Mrs. James G. Williams, Jr. of Bartlesville, Okla., and Montego Bay,
Jamaica; and three granddaughters, Daisy Heard Williams and Holly Heard
Williams, of Bartlesville and Jamaica, and Daisy Bower, a student at Stephens
College in Columbia, Mo.

Burial was at 2 p.m. Sunday in the Huffman plot in the Old Winnfield Cemetery
at Winnfield with Rev. Robert W. Gage of the Winnfield Presbyterian Church
officiating.

Arrangements were under the direction of Herndon Funeral Home of Hope and
Southern Funeral Home of Winnfield.