Extracted from The Clarion-Ledger (Jackson, MS)
Monday, March 15, 1993

Hulon S. [sic L.] Arender
retired farmer

By Jay Hughes
Clarion-Ledger Staff Writer

BRANDON -- Hulon S. [sic L.] Arender, 86, a retired farmer, died of heart failure Friday at Rankin Medical Center.

Services are 11 a.m. today at Liberty Baptist Church in Raleigh with burial in Liberty Cemetery. Colonial Chapel Funeral Home in Raleigh is handling arrangements.

Mr. Arender was a Raleigh native.

A daughter, Mary Hendricks of Brandon, said her father was especially good at working with livestock.

“He enjoyed breaking horses and mules,” Hendricks said. “People all over the county, when they had a horse they couldn't break, would bring it to Daddy.”

Hendricks said Mr. Arender also was a horse trader known for his fairness. “Daddy was an old-fashioned horse trader. He would see that the other fellow had the best. That was Daddy's way,” she said.

Mr. Arender, a music lover, traveled to churches throughout Mississippi teaching people to sing, Hendricks said. He taught people the theory of music, then encouraged them to apply it, she said.

Over the years, Hendricks said, her father taught many children and adults to sing.

“He got interested and learned to be a good singer,” said Winstead's widow, Lizzie Winstead.

Mr. Arender also sang with people who were home-bound because of illness or who lived in nursing homes, Hendricks said.

“He ministered until he became a patient in a nursing home himself and even after that. He loved his God and he loved his music and he loved to help people,” his daughter said.

Other survivors include: son, Paul Douglas Arender of Brandon; daughters, Daisy Lee Wood of Florence, Lanelle Ashley of Pearl, Dimple Jones of Hammond, La., and Alice Pearl McCarty of Brandon; brothers, Coley Arender of Stringer and Herschel Arender of Rogersville, Mo.; sisters, Merble Dukes, Maxine Chishom and Ruth Craft, all of Magee, Ora Dukes of Brandon and Charlotte Runnels and Camelle Richter, both of Jackson; and 23 grandchildren and 20 great-grandchildren.