Richard Clement Hyden

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Obituary

Clement Hyden

Richard Clement Hyden, age 73, of Buna died at 4 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 5, 1994, at a Beaumont hospital.

Funeral services were held at 4 p.m. Friday at First Baptist Church in Buna with Jerry Clark and Rick Eifert officiating. Interment followed at Antioch Cemetery near Buna. Arrangements were handled by Stringer Funeral Home in Buna.

Born Sept. 26, 1921, in Yellowpine and a graduate of Hemphill High School, Hyden had lived in Buna several years and was a retired educator. He had taught at Douglass and Summerfield before moving to Buna in 1949 as elementary principal at Buna ISD. Hyden later became high school principal and an outstanding basketball coach before being names superintendent of Buna ISD.

After retiring in 1983, Hyden served as assistant to State Rep. Jerry Clark unitl 1987. He was a member of the First United Methodist Church along with the Chamber of Commerce, Lions Club, Masonic Lodge, and the board of directors of Buna Public Library.

Survivors: wife, Geraldine Hyden of Buna; two sons and daughters-in-law, Steve and June Hyden of Benton, Louisiana; sisters, Johnnie Mae Smith of Austin and Versie Quick of Jasper; and grandchildren, Leisa, John and Jace.

Pallbearers: John Larry Hyden, Tommy Quick, R. A. Garlington, Harold West, Kenneth Champion, Robert Hargrove, Robert Nicks and Bobby Holmes.

Published in The Sabine County Reporter, October 12, 1994, page 10

(Research):Headstone was engraved Richard Clemit Hyden?

Richard married Geraldine Chaney on 8 Jun 1947 in Henderson, Rusk County, Texas. Geraldine (daughter of Ethredge E. Chaney and Geneva Ashley) was born about 1927 in Louisiana; and died. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]