HAZEL W. LATOU
May 5, 1922-Aug. 1, 2006
LAGRANGE -- Hazel Mae Wayne Latou, 84, of LaGrange, died Tuesday, Aug. 1, 2006 at Lenoir Memorial Hospital. Mrs. Latou was born Hazel Mae Butler on May 5, 1922, in Calhoun County, West Va. She was preceded in death by her mother, Roxie Butler Jackson, her stepfather, Arley Jesse Jackson, and her father, Homer Sampson.
She was a 1938 graduate of Grantsville High School in Grantsville, West Va. Mrs. Latou attended the Charleston School of Commerce in Charleston, West Va., Buchtel University in Akron, Ohio, and Hammel University in Akron, where she was trained as an accountant. In 1967 she obtained a certificate in IBM computer programming.
In 1942, she went to work as a company executive for the D.M. Siff Shoe Company in Akron, Ohio, where she helped Julius and Lawrence Siff manage a chain of 85 shoe stores. She gave up her career in 1958 to raise her family.
In the 1970s she obtained her real estate license and worked at Hill Realty in Kinston and otained her brokers license in the 1980s. She also enjoyed flea marketing, having a booth in Morehead City and later in Goldsboro.
Mrs. Latou is survived by her husband of 49 years, William W. "Bill" Latou, a retired chemist from Joy Manufacturing/Cooper Industries; two daughters, Paula Kay Latou Mercer and Bernice Latou and her boyfriend, Bill Grimes-Wyatt, all of Baltimore; three brothers, O.L. "Jack" Jackson of Inglis, Fla., Robert Leon Jackson of Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio, and Clayton Wayne and wife, Donna, of Vienna, West Va.; a sister, Vallie Wayne Duke of Vienna, West Va.; cousins Delma Bailes of Nettie, West Va., and Norman Lester of Washington, D.C., Chester and Irene Boggs of Dunnellon, Fla.; nieces Andrea Jackson Clements of Uniontown, Ohio, Andrea Jackson Heath of Newalla, Okla., and Katherine Gibson of Inglis, Fla.; and a nephew, Steve Jackson of Akron, Ohio.
A memorial service will be held Thursday, Aug. 10, at 2 p.m. from Rouse Funeral Home with the Rev. Brad Mitchell officiating. The family will receive friends Wednesday from 2-4 and 6-8 p.m. at Rouse Funeral Home and at other times they will be at the home. Memorials may be made to the Lenoir County SPCA, the Salvation Army, Disabled American Veterans or Paralyzed Veterans of America. Arrangements are with Rouse Funeral Home in LaGrange.
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Published in Obituaries on August 6, 2006 9:08 AM