Obituaries: Hasson Morris, 1973, Winn Parish, LA.
Submitted by Greggory E. Davies, 120 Ted Price Lane, Winnfield, LA 71483
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From: May 2, 1973 Winn Parish Enterprise News-American

Hasson Morris Dies; Service Is Thursday

Hasson Morris, one of the founders of First Federal Savings and Loan
Association of Winnfield, died at 4:15 a.m., May 2, in a hospital here
following a long illness.  He was 87.

Morris and eight other men in 1934 founded what was to become one of the
state's major financial institutions.

He grew up in Gansville where the family had a farm, a general mercantile
business, and he later was in the drug store business.

Most of his time since the founding of the loan firm in 1934 was occupied wiht
that business which he served as a director and with extensive land and rental
building properties.

The other living members of the founders of First Federal are Cas D. Moss,
Ovey Trahan, and Joe Mitchell.  The other founders were Lee J. Grigsby, E. J.
Byrnes, J. R. Lanier, J. G. Russell, Sr., and W. T. Norman.

Morris retired about four years ago as a director of the firm and was at that
time made a director emeritus.

Funeral services will be conducted Tuesday with a time to be announced by
Southern Funeral Home.  The services will be in the First Presbyterian Church
with its pastor, Rev. W. R. Gage officiating.  Burial will be in Siloam
Cemetery.

Survivors include a number of nieces and nephews.