Joe Wise Pitts Jr. died peacefully at a care facility in Shreveport, LA on Saturday, March 18, 2017 at the age of 83. Joe was born in Alexandria, LA to Joe Wise Pitts Sr. and Alice Roberts Pitts on October 30, 1933. He was raised with his elder sister Sally.
Joe Jr. attended Bolton High School where he excelled in many sports, especially tennis and basketball (in which he joined state championship teams for each). He then attended Tulane University, serving as president of the Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity and graduating with a Bachelor’s degree in Business Administration. He subsequently pursued additional graduate studies at Harvard Business School.
After his studies, Joe Jr. served in the U.S. Army in Korea, a Lieutenant on active duty and subsequently a Captain in the Army Reserve. After the war, he married Donna (“Bobbie”) Chachere, and returned to Alexandria where he joined the hardware business Brown Roberts, ultimately becoming president. The couple raised four children until their divorce after nineteen years. Joe Jr. started and served as president of an executive search agency in Houston, Texas and worked in financial services there until he retired to the Shreveport area.
Like his father before him, Joe Jr. was active as a leader of various national, state, and local civic organizations. Among such organizations were industry associations, the Young Presidents Organization (YPO), the First United Methodist Church of Alexandria, and Lions Club International (which he served in various capacities including as president of the Lions Club of Alexandria).
An avid and longtime competitive tennis player, he won awards on the state and regional levels and cultivated tennis talent among his children, and volunteered time to help lead various tennis events including the Pelican State Tennis Tournament. He was beloved by his family and by all for his kind and gentlemanly disposition and good sense of humor.
Joe Jr. is survived by his four children, Joe Wise (“Chip”) Pitts III, Donna Roma Sherman, James Cullen Pitts, and Ashley Elliot Pitts, his sister Sally Pitts Carstens, his grandchildren Jacoby Lance Sherman, Levi Cullen Sherman and Fiona Wray Estes, and dear extended family members.
He is preceded in death by his parents Joe Wise Pitts Sr. and Alice Roberts Pitts.
Joe Jr. attended Bolton High School where he excelled in many sports, especially tennis and basketball (in which he joined state championship teams for each). He then attended Tulane University, serving as president of the Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity and graduating with a Bachelor’s degree in Business Administration. He subsequently pursued additional graduate studies at Harvard Business School.
After his studies, Joe Jr. served in the U.S. Army in Korea, a Lieutenant on active duty and subsequently a Captain in the Army Reserve. After the war, he married Donna (“Bobbie”) Chachere, and returned to Alexandria where he joined the hardware business Brown Roberts, ultimately becoming president. The couple raised four children until their divorce after nineteen years. Joe Jr. started and served as president of an executive search agency in Houston, Texas and worked in financial services there until he retired to the Shreveport area.
Like his father before him, Joe Jr. was active as a leader of various national, state, and local civic organizations. Among such organizations were industry associations, the Young Presidents Organization (YPO), the First United Methodist Church of Alexandria, and Lions Club International (which he served in various capacities including as president of the Lions Club of Alexandria).
An avid and longtime competitive tennis player, he won awards on the state and regional levels and cultivated tennis talent among his children, and volunteered time to help lead various tennis events including the Pelican State Tennis Tournament. He was beloved by his family and by all for his kind and gentlemanly disposition and good sense of humor.
Joe Jr. is survived by his four children, Joe Wise (“Chip”) Pitts III, Donna Roma Sherman, James Cullen Pitts, and Ashley Elliot Pitts, his sister Sally Pitts Carstens, his grandchildren Jacoby Lance Sherman, Levi Cullen Sherman and Fiona Wray Estes, and dear extended family members.
He is preceded in death by his parents Joe Wise Pitts Sr. and Alice Roberts Pitts.
Joe Wise Pitts Jr. died peacefully at a care facility in Shreveport, LA on Saturday, March 18, 2017 at the age of 83. Joe was born in Alexandria, LA to Joe Wise Pitts Sr. and Alice Roberts Pitts on October 30, 1933. He was raised with his elder sister Sally.
Joe Jr. attended Bolton High School where he excelled in many sports, especially tennis and basketball (in which he joined state championship teams for each). He then attended Tulane University, serving as president of the Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity and graduating with a Bachelor’s degree in Business Administration. He subsequently pursued additional graduate studies at Harvard Business School.
After his studies, Joe Jr. served in the U.S. Army in Korea, a Lieutenant on active duty and subsequently a Captain in the Army Reserve. After the war, he married Donna (“Bobbie”) Chachere, and returned to Alexandria where he joined the hardware business Brown Roberts, ultimately becoming president. The couple raised four children until their divorce after nineteen years. Joe Jr. started and served as president of an executive search agency in Houston, Texas and worked in financial services there until he retired to the Shreveport area.
Like his father before him, Joe Jr. was active as a leader of various national, state, and local civic organizations. Among such organizations were industry associations, the Young Presidents Organization (YPO), the First United Methodist Church of Alexandria, and Lions Club International (which he served in various capacities including as president of the Lions Club of Alexandria).
An avid and longtime competitive tennis player, he won awards on the state and regional levels and cultivated tennis talent among his children, and volunteered time to help lead various tennis events including the Pelican State Tennis Tournament. He was beloved by his family and by all for his kind and gentlemanly disposition and good sense of humor.
Joe Jr. is survived by his four children, Joe Wise (“Chip”) Pitts III, Donna Roma Sherman, James Cullen Pitts, and Ashley Elliot Pitts, his sister Sally Pitts Carstens, his grandchildren Jacoby Lance Sherman, Levi Cullen Sherman and Fiona Wray Estes, and dear extended family members.
He is preceded in death by his parents Joe Wise Pitts Sr. and Alice Roberts Pitts.
Joe Jr. attended Bolton High School where he excelled in many sports, especially tennis and basketball (in which he joined state championship teams for each). He then attended Tulane University, serving as president of the Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity and graduating with a Bachelor’s degree in Business Administration. He subsequently pursued additional graduate studies at Harvard Business School.
After his studies, Joe Jr. served in the U.S. Army in Korea, a Lieutenant on active duty and subsequently a Captain in the Army Reserve. After the war, he married Donna (“Bobbie”) Chachere, and returned to Alexandria where he joined the hardware business Brown Roberts, ultimately becoming president. The couple raised four children until their divorce after nineteen years. Joe Jr. started and served as president of an executive search agency in Houston, Texas and worked in financial services there until he retired to the Shreveport area.
Like his father before him, Joe Jr. was active as a leader of various national, state, and local civic organizations. Among such organizations were industry associations, the Young Presidents Organization (YPO), the First United Methodist Church of Alexandria, and Lions Club International (which he served in various capacities including as president of the Lions Club of Alexandria).
An avid and longtime competitive tennis player, he won awards on the state and regional levels and cultivated tennis talent among his children, and volunteered time to help lead various tennis events including the Pelican State Tennis Tournament. He was beloved by his family and by all for his kind and gentlemanly disposition and good sense of humor.
Joe Jr. is survived by his four children, Joe Wise (“Chip”) Pitts III, Donna Roma Sherman, James Cullen Pitts, and Ashley Elliot Pitts, his sister Sally Pitts Carstens, his grandchildren Jacoby Lance Sherman, Levi Cullen Sherman and Fiona Wray Estes, and dear extended family members.
He is preceded in death by his parents Joe Wise Pitts Sr. and Alice Roberts Pitts.
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