State publicist
BATON ROUGE – Services for prominent sugar industry family member and state employee Elaine Ventress Johnson will be private. She died at age 92.
Her family operated Magnolia and Grenada Plantations in Iberville Parish. She was a publicist for the state Dept. of Education under Supt. Bill Dodd and also held public relations post in the Office of Elderly Affairs and the Office of Tourism. She was director of the Louisiana Civil War Centennial Commission.
Survivors include a daughter.
Former mayor
CLINTON – Services for former mayor Toler Hatcher will be Saturday. He died Dec. 18 at age 82.
He was Clinton mayor from 1997 until 2005. He had also served on the East Feliciana Parish School Board and on the Clinton Town Council. He had been a trainer for the Clinton High football team and the LSU football and boxing teams.
Survivors include his wife Melinda and two children.
Arrangements are by Charlet.
Reference librarian
WEST COLUMBIA, S.C. – Services for former head of the Louisiana State Library Reference Department Ida Jensen are pending. She died at age 93.
She held several positions at LSU before serving as an Army librarian in Germany, then joining the Louisiana State Library.
Survivors include several step-children.
Arrangements are by Elmwood.