Extracted from The Advocate (Baton Rouge, LA)
Wednesday, February 25, 1948

Henry M. Mims Dies; Service Set for Today

Funeral services will be held today for Henry M. Mims, assistant state co-ordinator for the Soil Conservation service, who died in New Orleans Monday.

A brief service will be held from the Welsh funeral parlors at 2:30 p.m., after which services will be conducted at the First Baptist church and burial will be in Roselawn Memorial park, Dr. J. Norris Palmer will officiate at the services.

Sims Jackson, Miles Mims, Ray Gleason, Christy Johns, Henry Sexton and Wiley Wedemeyer will serve as active pallbearers.

Honorary pallbearers will be: Dean J. G. Lee, Dr. M. B. Sturgis, J. P. Montgomery, H. C. Sanders, Floyd Edmiston, J. C. Floyd, Dr. Irving Forbes, Col. F. J. Mecklin, P. K. Harrison, c. C. Campbell, Dr. Everett Ortel, A. C. Morris, J. P. Hinton, Guy Jones, Brodie Pugh, Ed Natler, A. R. Cain, W. E. Dee.

G. H. Nixon, Francis Mangham, Dewitt Pyburn, Delius Soileau, Neil Bullock, Glen Kelly, Sam Mims, H. B. Bozeman, Dr. Walter Peavy, Richard Cadwallader, E. R. Strahan, L. A. Mullins.

Jim Livingston, I. M. Causey, B. G. Turnipseed, Warren Watson, Don Spencer, Brooksie Slack, Ford Stewart, Joe Moran, Henry Lowe, F. L. Spencer, Noah Haynes, John Borneman, B. H. Singletary, L. N. Stracener, Roger Jones, Luther Jordan, Gen. Troy H. Middleton, S. R. Aycock, J. R. Snell, Congressman Overton Brooks, Bradley Mittendorf.

Mims was 58 years old. A native of Webster parish, he had served in World War I and was injured in the war. He was a 1925 graduate of LSU and had been a parish farm agent. He had been head of the Soil Conservation, working in the state until a serious auto accident in 1936.

He and his wife, the former Flavia Gleason, resided here in Zeeland place. She was formerly head of the home demonstration work in Florida and now is connected with the Baptist Student center at LSU.

Surviving Mims are his widow; two brothers, Leland of Minden and Sam J.; two sisters, Mrs. Felix Sexton of Minden and Mrs. W. W. Teer of Hall Summit. A brother, John M. Mims, died a few months ago at the Veterans' hospital in New Orleans.