Extracted from The Advocate (Baton Rouge, LA)
Friday, June 10, 1988

HEARN, GEORGE EUGENE ``GENE''

Died 11 a.m. Wednesday, June 8, 1988, at Schumpert Medical Center, Shreveport. He was 28, a native and resident of Shreveport. He was affilliated with Kean Miller Hawthorne D'Armond McCowan & Jarman law firm in Baton Rouge.

Visiting at Hixson Brothers Funeral Home, Pineville, 4 to 10 p.m. Friday. Religious services at First Baptist Church, Pineville, 10 a.m. Saturday, conducted by Dr. John Sullivan, the Rev. Eugene Spruell, the Rev. Fisk Ray, Professor Howard L'Enfant and the Rev. Ron Harvey. Burial in Greenwood Memorial Park, Pineville.

Survived by parents, Dr. and Mrs. George Earl Hearn, Pineville; a sister, Patricia Gail Smith, Birmingham, Ala.; paternal grandmother, Mrs. May Peters Hearn, Shreveport; and two nieces.

He was a member of Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity, Omicron Delta Epsilon Honorary Society and Broadmoor Baptist Church, Shreveport. He was a graduate of Pineville High School, Baylor University and LSU Law School.

In lieu of flowers, memorial donations may be made to Gene Hearn Memorial Fund at Lousiana College, Pineville, or Gene Hearn LSU Law Scholarship Fund.