Extracted from The Morning Advocate (Baton Rouge, LA)
Wednesday, October 14, 1959

HAWKINS, JUSTIN PAUL (JIM)

Died at 4:30 p.m. Monday at a New Orleans hospital. A native of Mississippi, he was 53 years old and resided in Duplessis. Body at Welsh parlors in Gonzales until 9:30 a.m. Wednesday. Services at 10 a.m. Wednesday at Prairieville Catholic Church with interment in Prairieville cemetery. Rabenhorst Funeral Home in charge of arrangements.

Survived by his wife, the former Leonise Berteau; four sons, James, Edgar, Ronald and Carey Hawkins, all of Duplessis; two daughters, Mrs. Owen Braud of Dutchtown and Miss Judith Hawkins of Duplessis; three sisters, Mrs. J. C. Hamilton and Mrs. Roy Montgomery, both of Laurel, Miss., and Mrs. N. J. Bourgeois of Baton Rouge; three grandchildren.