Hiney K. Kent, 98, died Monday, Jan. 17, 2011, at Camelot of Broussard, near Lafayette.
Visitation at Charlet Funeral Home, Zachary, until services.
Born in 1912, he grew up in Zachary and graduated from Zachary High School, where he played basketball, baseball and track and won the state broad jump championship in 1933. He was awarded a track scholarship to LSU, where he was a letterman in basketball, baseball, and track, was vice president of the College of Agriculture, and a member of Omicron Delta Kappa, honoring leadership and academic excellence. He held the LSU high jump record and won two Southeastern Conference championships in the high jump. He was named to the All-America Track Team and competed internationally, including an international meet in Germany where he won the bronze medal and was awarded the "key to the city" by the mayor of Berlin a few months prior to Hitler's invasion of Poland. He would have competed in the 1940 Olympics had it not been cancelled due to World War II.
From 1937-1941, he developed and taught the first agricultural program at Winnfield High School in Winnfield, then raised funds to develop and support high school agricultural programs in Louisiana. He was an oil lease broker from 1951-1984 and was co-founder and vice president of the LSU Alumni Chapter for Mississippi. In 1990, he was inducted into the Zachary High School Hall of Fame.
Hiney said his greatest achievement was his marriage of 69 years to Laura Winslow Kent with whom he had three children, Barrie Wentzell, Gerry Kent, and Elaine Taylor. He was like a father to their spouses, Fern Wentzell, Vicki Kent, and Jim Taylor, as well as a loving grandfather to his grandchildren, Erin Achartz, Barrett Achartz, Gerry Bufkin, Brooke Kent, and Hunter Kent, and to his four great-grandchildren. He is survived by a sister, Bobbie Bennett, and brother, J.W. Kent, both of Zachary.
Obituary published in The Advocate on January 20, 2011.
Visitation at Charlet Funeral Home, Zachary, until services.
Born in 1912, he grew up in Zachary and graduated from Zachary High School, where he played basketball, baseball and track and won the state broad jump championship in 1933. He was awarded a track scholarship to LSU, where he was a letterman in basketball, baseball, and track, was vice president of the College of Agriculture, and a member of Omicron Delta Kappa, honoring leadership and academic excellence. He held the LSU high jump record and won two Southeastern Conference championships in the high jump. He was named to the All-America Track Team and competed internationally, including an international meet in Germany where he won the bronze medal and was awarded the "key to the city" by the mayor of Berlin a few months prior to Hitler's invasion of Poland. He would have competed in the 1940 Olympics had it not been cancelled due to World War II.
From 1937-1941, he developed and taught the first agricultural program at Winnfield High School in Winnfield, then raised funds to develop and support high school agricultural programs in Louisiana. He was an oil lease broker from 1951-1984 and was co-founder and vice president of the LSU Alumni Chapter for Mississippi. In 1990, he was inducted into the Zachary High School Hall of Fame.
Hiney said his greatest achievement was his marriage of 69 years to Laura Winslow Kent with whom he had three children, Barrie Wentzell, Gerry Kent, and Elaine Taylor. He was like a father to their spouses, Fern Wentzell, Vicki Kent, and Jim Taylor, as well as a loving grandfather to his grandchildren, Erin Achartz, Barrett Achartz, Gerry Bufkin, Brooke Kent, and Hunter Kent, and to his four great-grandchildren. He is survived by a sister, Bobbie Bennett, and brother, J.W. Kent, both of Zachary.
Obituary published in The Advocate on January 20, 2011.
Hiney K. Kent, 98, died Monday, Jan. 17, 2011, at Camelot of Broussard, near Lafayette.
Visitation at Charlet Funeral Home, Zachary, until services.
Born in 1912, he grew up in Zachary and graduated from Zachary High School, where he played basketball, baseball and track and won the state broad jump championship in 1933. He was awarded a track scholarship to LSU, where he was a letterman in basketball, baseball, and track, was vice president of the College of Agriculture, and a member of Omicron Delta Kappa, honoring leadership and academic excellence. He held the LSU high jump record and won two Southeastern Conference championships in the high jump. He was named to the All-America Track Team and competed internationally, including an international meet in Germany where he won the bronze medal and was awarded the "key to the city" by the mayor of Berlin a few months prior to Hitler's invasion of Poland. He would have competed in the 1940 Olympics had it not been cancelled due to World War II.
From 1937-1941, he developed and taught the first agricultural program at Winnfield High School in Winnfield, then raised funds to develop and support high school agricultural programs in Louisiana. He was an oil lease broker from 1951-1984 and was co-founder and vice president of the LSU Alumni Chapter for Mississippi. In 1990, he was inducted into the Zachary High School Hall of Fame.
Hiney said his greatest achievement was his marriage of 69 years to Laura Winslow Kent with whom he had three children, Barrie Wentzell, Gerry Kent, and Elaine Taylor. He was like a father to their spouses, Fern Wentzell, Vicki Kent, and Jim Taylor, as well as a loving grandfather to his grandchildren, Erin Achartz, Barrett Achartz, Gerry Bufkin, Brooke Kent, and Hunter Kent, and to his four great-grandchildren. He is survived by a sister, Bobbie Bennett, and brother, J.W. Kent, both of Zachary.
Obituary published in The Advocate on January 20, 2011.
Visitation at Charlet Funeral Home, Zachary, until services.
Born in 1912, he grew up in Zachary and graduated from Zachary High School, where he played basketball, baseball and track and won the state broad jump championship in 1933. He was awarded a track scholarship to LSU, where he was a letterman in basketball, baseball, and track, was vice president of the College of Agriculture, and a member of Omicron Delta Kappa, honoring leadership and academic excellence. He held the LSU high jump record and won two Southeastern Conference championships in the high jump. He was named to the All-America Track Team and competed internationally, including an international meet in Germany where he won the bronze medal and was awarded the "key to the city" by the mayor of Berlin a few months prior to Hitler's invasion of Poland. He would have competed in the 1940 Olympics had it not been cancelled due to World War II.
From 1937-1941, he developed and taught the first agricultural program at Winnfield High School in Winnfield, then raised funds to develop and support high school agricultural programs in Louisiana. He was an oil lease broker from 1951-1984 and was co-founder and vice president of the LSU Alumni Chapter for Mississippi. In 1990, he was inducted into the Zachary High School Hall of Fame.
Hiney said his greatest achievement was his marriage of 69 years to Laura Winslow Kent with whom he had three children, Barrie Wentzell, Gerry Kent, and Elaine Taylor. He was like a father to their spouses, Fern Wentzell, Vicki Kent, and Jim Taylor, as well as a loving grandfather to his grandchildren, Erin Achartz, Barrett Achartz, Gerry Bufkin, Brooke Kent, and Hunter Kent, and to his four great-grandchildren. He is survived by a sister, Bobbie Bennett, and brother, J.W. Kent, both of Zachary.
Obituary published in The Advocate on January 20, 2011.
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