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Leon and Ann Hyatt

Ann Hyatt remembered as encourager to Louisiana Baptists

July 5, 2018

Elizabeth “Ann” Hyatt, the wife of long-time Louisiana Baptist Convention director of church extension Leon Hyatt and a life-long encourager to Louisiana Baptists, passed away Wednesday, July 4. She was 90.

Hyatt, a Louisiana College and New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary graduate, began serving  Louisiana Baptists at an early age. She collected pennies to help build Daddy Flowers Chapel on the campus of the Louisiana Baptist Children’s Home as a young person and shared the Gospel in prison, on the streets and on the Red River levee as a member of First Baptist Church in Pineville as a college student.

While at Louisiana College, Hyatt met and married her husband, Leon.

For the rest of her life, Hyatt encouraged her husband as her served on the Louisiana Baptist Convention staff and in churches. She also was active with ministry efforts when Main Street Mission in Pineville began, served as a trustee of the Louisiana Baptist Children’s Home and LBC Executive Board, was director of the Woman’s Missionary Union of North Rapides Baptist Association, taught English as a Second Language classes and participated in numerous mission trips.

She is survived by her husband, Leon, who she was married to for 68 years, her three children, Diane Elizabeth Hyatt Gilliland (husband Brent), Frank David Hyatt and Marsha Ruth Hyatt; three grandchildren and three great-grandchildren.

In lieu of flowers, gifts are requested to be made to First Baptist Church Making Way, Louisiana Baptist Children’s Home and Family Services, or Main Street Baptist Mission.

Funeral services will be held at First Baptist Pineville, at 11:30 a.m. July 7, 2018, and will be led by First Pineville Pastor Stewart Holloway and Main Street Mission Pastor Sam West. Visitation is scheduled 6-8 p.m. July 7 at Hixson Brothers Funeral Home in Pineville, and 10:30-11:30 a.m. at First Baptist Pineville.

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