Educator, NSU basketball player
BENTON – Services for coach, educator and a former Louisiana Mr. Basketball Phillip Haley, Sr. will be Monday. He died Dec. 19 at age 74.
He was selected Mr. Basketball in 1957 after four years at Belmont High. He was a four-year basketball letter man at Northwestern State and is a member of its Basketball Hall of Fame. He was a teacher and coach at Zachary High and Parkway High, before becoming an assistant principal, then principal at Airline High. He established the Bossier Parish Alternative School.
Survivors include his wife Pam and three children.
Arrangements are by Hillcrest.
Baptist lay leader
ALEXANDRIA – Services for computer company owner and Southern Baptist lay leader Carl Voda will be Monday. He died Dec. 21 at age 91.
He was a U.S. Army Air Corps veteran of the World War II Pacific campaign. He was co-owner of House of Electronics and a founder of Time Trend Computers, one of the initial computer companies in Central Louisiana. He served as vice president of the Louisiana Baptist Convention and as State Brotherhood president. He was Louisiana representative on the Southern Baptist Brotherhood Commission and was its vice president.
Survivors include his wife Melba and a son.
Arrangements are by Hixson Brothers.
Physician, pressure suit pioneer
LAFAYETTE – Services for Dr. Harold Jacobs, Jr., the first person to attain a simulated altitude of more than 100,000 feet and pressure suit pioneer, will be Monday. He died Dec. 19 at age 90.
He did pressure suit research while a member of the U.S. Air Force. He began an internal medicine and cardiology practice in Lafayette in 1951. He was chief of staff at Lafayette Sanitarium and Lafayette General. He was a clinical professor of internal medical at Louisiana School of Medicine.
Survivors include three children.
Arrangements are by Delhomme.
Dentist
ALEXANDRIA – Services for long-time dentist Dr. Dean Cason will be Monday. He died Dec. 21 at age 84.
He had a private practice for almost 40 years and was on staff at Rapides General and St. Frances Cabrini Hospitals. He was a dental consultant at LTI, Central State Hospital, Camp Beauregard and Louisiana Special Education Center.
Survivors include his wife Marian and three children.
Arrangements are by Hixson Brothers.
Korean vets advocate
PINEVILLE – Services for Korean War Veterans Association founder Clyde G. Durham, Jr. will be Monday. He died Dec. 21 at age 82.
He was an Air Force veteran of the Korean War, instrumental in formation of the area veterans association and an organizer of the Military Museum at Camp Beauregard. He was an advertising representative for the Alexandria Daily Town Talk for more than 40 years.
Survivors include his wife Barbara and two daughters.
Arrangements are by Hixson Brothers.
Attorney
SHREVEPORT – Services for attorney Martha Bush Chandler will be Monday. She died Dec. 21 at age 84.
She was a graduate of Tulane Law School. While an undergraduate at LSU she was vice president of the student body.
Pharmacist, youth coach
SHREVEPORT – Services for pharmacist and long-time youth baseball coach Paul “Steve” Sims will be Monday. He died at age 66.
He was a youth baseball coach for more than 40 years and on the Dixie Baseball board.
Survivors include his wife Marion and three children.
Arrangements are by Rose-Neath.