Extracted from The Ruston Daily Leader (Ruston, LA)
Monday, March 6, 1939

LOUIE HINES SUCCUMBS AT HOSPITAL HERE

Louie D. [sic B.] Hines, 59, Ruston plumber for the past many years, succumbed at the Ruston - Lincoln Sanitarium about midnight Sunday from the effects of a cerebral hemorrhage, suffered Sunday afternoon about 5 o'clock. Funeral services will be conducted from the family residence this afternoon at 4 o'clock, with the Rev. Guy M. Hicks, pastor of Trinity Methodist church officiating. Interment will be in Greenwood cemetery under the direction of B. F. McLiure and Co., Funeral Parlors, Ruston.

Mr. Hines was stricken while changing a tire on his automobile at Choudrant Sunday afternoon. He and Mrs. Hines had been out driving during the afternoon. He was brought to the Ruston hospital by McLure ambulance called immediately after the attack.

Survivors include the widow and one son, Sam Hines, Ruston, two sisters, Mrs. R. W. Tucker, Ruston and Mrs. Charles Turner, Georgia, and one brother, Ben Hines, also of Georgia.

Pallbearers for the rites today will be Howard Liner, Bryan Thigpen, Clyde Richardson, Charles Bethuns, J. W. Thompson, W. O. Hedgepeth, O. W. Wanless and S. D. Lott.