Extracted from The Lake Charles American-Press (Lake Charles, LA)
Wednesday, November 30, 1966

Prominent Realtor G. B. Hines dies

George B. Hines, 63, of 1722 Fifth St., prominent Realton and civic leader, died at 2:30 p.m. Tuesday following an apparent heart attack. He was stricken in City Hall where he was attending a Zoning Commission meeting.

He was pronounced dead on arrival at St. Patrick Hospital.

Funeral services will be at 2 p.m. Thursday in the First Presbyterian Church with the Rev. Richard Copeland, pastor, officiating.

Burial will be in the Graceland Cemetery under the direction of Hixson Funeral Home.

A native and lifelong resident of Lake Charles, Mr. Hines was the son of the late Rev. and Mrs. George B. Hines. His father was a pastor here for 50 years, first at Simpson Methodist Church and later at the First Presbyterian.

Mr. Hines was in the real estate business here for 26 years. He served the Lake Charles Board of Realtors as president for three terms; in 1949 was the president of the Louisiana Realtors Association, and in 1963 was president of the Louisiana Real Estate Licensing Council.

In addition to serving as president of the Louisiana-Mississippi Chapter 36 of the American Institute of Real Estate Appraisers, he was also a member of the Society of Real Estate Appraisers and the American Right-of-Way Association, Louisiana Chapter.

His many civic activities included charter membership and past presidency of the Young Men's Business Club; organizer and charter member of the Calcasieu Juvenile Council and charter member of the Lake Charles Recreation Commission, on which he served two terms.

Mr. Hines was council commissioner for the Calcasieu Area Council Boy Scouts of America for 10 years and was council president and Silver Beaver award recipient. Three years ago he was presented a 40-year service pin for Boy Scout work.

Mr. Hines was on the Lake Charles City School Board for two terms, serving as board president for a time.

Throughout the years he served on various committees of the Lake Charles Association of Commerce. He was a Kiwanian for more than 20 years, and was at one time a member of the disaster committee of the Calcasieu-Cameron Chapter, American Red Cross.

In 1948 he was elected an elder in the First Presbyterian Church where he had served as an officer since 1928.

Survivors are his wife, Mrs. Edna M. Hines; two daughters, Mrs. Sidney Taylor and Mrs. Charles Milburn, both of Lake Charles; one brother, Morys H. HInes of Albuquerque, N.M.; two sisters, Mrs. A. H. Menuet of Kansas City, Mo., and Lou Ann Hines of Lake Charles, and six grandchildren.

Active pallbearers will be Charles Viccellio, Bill Shaddock, Brock Lawes, Charles Shea, D. Allan Collette Jr., William L. McCleod Jr., Gerald Streater and David Reinauer.

If they wish friends may make memorial donations to the Memorial Fund of the First Presbyterian Church, the Boy Scouts, or the American Red Cross, the family said.