Betty Hays Hazlip (Hays)

Services for Elizabeth Hays “Betty” Hazlip, 84 of Waterproof will be held at 11:00 am Thursday, September 12 at St. Patrick’s Catholic Church in Ferriday, Louisiana with Father Louis Sklar officiating. She died peacefully at her home Sunday, September 8, 2013. Arrangements are under the direction of Young’s Funeral Home in Ferriday. Visitation will be from 10:00 am until service time at the church. Mrs. Hazlip was born September 22, 1928, the middle child of Peter and Mary Hays. Named for her paternal Great-Grandmother Bettie Scott Goldman, she lived her entire life in Tensas Parish. Attending Northwestern State University in the 1940s, she was selected as a freshman beauty. As a founding member and former regent of Bruin-Vidal Chapter Daughters of the American Revolution, she was proud to be a descendent of Peter Bryan Bruin who settled in the Delta shortly after his military service in the Revolutionary War. She also served as the Senior President of Tonti of the Iron Hand Society Children of the American Revolution and was a member of The First Families of Mississippi. On the maternal side of her family she descends from Pierre Simeon and Appoline Patout, French immigrants who founded Enterprise Plantation in 1832, the oldest continually run complete sugar plantation still owned and operated by its original family in the United States. Betty and Joe Hazlip were founding members of Tensas Academy in St. Joseph where she served many years on the Board of Directors. A former member of the Waterproof High School cheerleading squad, she never lost her enthusiasm rooting for her children, grandchildren, and great-grandchildren in their various sporting activities. She bragged on her fine children, her beautiful ferns, delicious pralines, and winning many hands of Bridge. She was preceded in death by her parents, her sister Martha Frances Hays Smith, and her high school sweetheart and husband of 65 years Joseph Kirkland “Joe” Hazlip. Survivors include her brothers Magruder Goldman Hays and his wife, Madeline, Peter Bruin Hays, Jr. and his wife, Jerry and sister Corinne Hays Talbot; five children, Peter Kirkland Hazlip and wife, Marian, Joseph Magruder Hazlip and his wife, Meg, Mary Rebecca Hazlip Rabb and husband, Mike, Emile Patout Hazlip and wife, Adele, Betty Jo Hazlip Harris and husband, Todd; 13 grandchildren, Paige Sears and husband Calvin, Stacey Staten and husband, Lucas, Bennett Hazlip and wife, Liz, Magruder Hazlip and wife, Liz, Corinne Hegwood and husband, Les, Rebecca Harrison and husband, Stan, Michael Rabb, Jr. and wife, Lauren, Emily Hazlip, Stan Hazlip, Ned Wright and wife, Holly, Peter Wright, Davis Harris, and Joseph Harris; 14 great-grandchildren, Benjamin Rice, Hannah Rice, Jackson Staten, Alexis Staten, Joe Hazlip, Ilona Hazlip, Mac Hazlip, Mae Hazlip, John Hazlip, Hays Hegwood, Gus Hegwood, Hunter Harrison, Bruin Harrison and Kenner Harrison. Pallbearers will be Bennett Hazlip, Magruder Hazlip, Michael Rabb, Jr., Stan Hazlip, Ned Wright, Peter Wright, Davis Harris, and Joseph Harris. In lieu of flowers, donations may be made to Tensas Academy.- P.O Box 555 Saint Joseph, LA 71366

Betty Hays Hazlip (Hays)

September 22, 1928 - September 8, 2013