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Clare Chester Hightower

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Clare Chester Hightower

Birth
Runnels County, Texas, USA
Death
27 Nov 1945 (aged 66)
New Orleans, Orleans Parish, Louisiana, USA
Burial
New Orleans, Orleans Parish, Louisiana, USA Add to Map
Plot
Section 149
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New Orleans Item
New Orleans, Louisiana
Wednesday, November 28, 1945

Death Takes C. C. Hightower. Clare C. Hightower, 66, a director of the Cotton Exchange, died a 11 o'clock last night at the Baptist Hospital following an illness of two months. He resided at 1538 Fourth Street.

Mr. Hightower was joint manager of Anderson-Clayton and Co., cotton merchants, and had been connected with the firm about 30 years the last 24 of which he spent in New Orleans. He was a native of Sweetwater, Texas.

A former treasurer of the Cotton Exchange for many years, Mr. Hightower was also a past chairman of the Joint Traffic Bureau. He was a member of the Rotary Club.

Survivors are his wife, the former Miss Kathleen Brooks; one daughter, Mrs. David Wardlaw Moore of New Orleans; three sisters, Mrs. Jannie H. Hamer, Mrs. Edna H. Jones, and Mrs. William T. Shelton, all of Sweetwater, Texas, and two brothers Thomas and James Hightower, also of Sweetwater.

Funeral services will be held at 4 p.m. tomorrow from the House of Bultman Mortuary on St. Charles Ave. Religious rites will be conducted by the Rev. H. L. Johns and the Rev. W. W. Holmes at the Rayne Memorial Methodist Church, followed by interment in Metairie Cemetery.
New Orleans Item
New Orleans, Louisiana
Wednesday, November 28, 1945

Death Takes C. C. Hightower. Clare C. Hightower, 66, a director of the Cotton Exchange, died a 11 o'clock last night at the Baptist Hospital following an illness of two months. He resided at 1538 Fourth Street.

Mr. Hightower was joint manager of Anderson-Clayton and Co., cotton merchants, and had been connected with the firm about 30 years the last 24 of which he spent in New Orleans. He was a native of Sweetwater, Texas.

A former treasurer of the Cotton Exchange for many years, Mr. Hightower was also a past chairman of the Joint Traffic Bureau. He was a member of the Rotary Club.

Survivors are his wife, the former Miss Kathleen Brooks; one daughter, Mrs. David Wardlaw Moore of New Orleans; three sisters, Mrs. Jannie H. Hamer, Mrs. Edna H. Jones, and Mrs. William T. Shelton, all of Sweetwater, Texas, and two brothers Thomas and James Hightower, also of Sweetwater.

Funeral services will be held at 4 p.m. tomorrow from the House of Bultman Mortuary on St. Charles Ave. Religious rites will be conducted by the Rev. H. L. Johns and the Rev. W. W. Holmes at the Rayne Memorial Methodist Church, followed by interment in Metairie Cemetery.


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