Henry Durl Timms

Shreveport, LA

Funeral services for Mr. Henry Durl Timms, age 87 of Shreveport, LA, will be held at 2:00 p.m. on Monday, August 22, 2011, at Hill Crest Funeral Home with Rev. Bryan Reed officiating. The family will receive friends from 12:00 noon until time of service at the funeral home on Monday. Interment will follow at Hill Crest Memorial Park.

Mr. Timms passed away on Friday, August 19, 2011. He was born in Lake City, Arkansas on January 20, 1924, and graduated from Lake City High School in 1941. Shortly thereafter, he was inducted in the United States Army where he proudly served as a medic from 1943 to 1946. His military duties took him to England, the Rhineland, Central Europe and the Beaches of Normandy. After returning stateside, he relocated to Bossier City, LA, married Sadie Marie Garbo in 1948 and obtained a BS degree in Business Administration from Centenary College in Shreveport, LA, in 1950. While a student at Centenary, he played basketball and was a member of Kappa Sigma Fraternity. Mr. Timms was employed for 39 years by Commercial National Bank where he retired in 1987 as Vice President and Branch Manager.

He was preceded in death by his parents, E. Henry Timms and Olia McHalffey Timms. He is survived by four children, Sandra Timms Smith and husband Mark, Jr., of Sugar Land, TX, Michael Timms and wife Jane of Bossier City, David Timms and wife Joyce of Conroe, TX, and Randy Timms and wife Stacey of Bossier City; grandchildren, Mark Smith III, Lynne Smith Bolyard, Shannon Timms Oliphint, Michael Timms, Jr., Katye Timms Hamby, Lauren Timms, Abbie Timms, and Hunter Timms; eight great-grandchildren, and special friend, Oral Link.

Serving as pallbearers are Halton (Andy) Andrews, Oral Link, Michael Timms, Jr., Hunter Timms and Mark Smith, III. Honorary pallbearer will be William Heins.

The family would like to express their sincere appreciation to Suzanne Campbell and staff at The Gables at Spring Lake, and the staff at Elder Kare, LLC.

You may share your memories with the family by visiting www.hillcrestmemorialfh.com.