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CROWLEY - Funeral services for Maud Angeline Hollowell Black, 93, of Crowley, will be held at 11 a.m. Friday, Nov. 3, 2006, at First Baptist Church in Crowley with the Rev. Roger Tarver, pastor of First Baptist Church, officiating. Mrs. Black died at 10:35 a.m. Tuesday, Oct. 31, 2006, in Crowley. Interment will be in Woodlawn Cemetery. Visitation was observed from 3 p.m. until 10 p.m. Thursday and will continue today from 8 a.m. until service time. Mrs. Black was born and reared near Princeton, N.C. She graduated from Guilford College in Greensboro, N.C. in 1934 and was an honors graduate of Duke University School of Nursing in Durham, N.C. (RN '35, BSN '39). She spent thirty-nine months serving overseas during World War II as a nurse with the with the Duke-affiliated Army 65th General Hospital Unit, near Malvern Wells, England. She was honorably discharged in 1946, having achieved the rank of First Lieutenant. Following the war, she moved to Crowley with her husband, Major David Black, who had assumed a position with the LSU Agricultural Center, Rice Research Station, USDA Cooperating. She held a variety of positions in nursing over a near 50 year career, her last being an instructor of nursing with the Southwest Louisiana Vocational School in Crowley for 25 years. She received several honors during her career including the Meritorious Award in 1969 by the Louisiana Vocational Association, Outstanding Practical Nursing Instructor awarded by the Louisiana Health Occupations Instructors organization in 1984, and the Crowley Chamber of Commerce Outstanding Citizen of 1990 Award. She was an active member of the First Baptist Church. She was also a past president of Delta Kappa Gamma, Beta Delphian Study Club, The Pink Ladies Auxiliary, Acadia Council on Child Abuse, and a member of The American Association of University Women and Acadia Parish Retired Teachers Association. She had been a member of the American Legion Post of the VFW, and various nursing associations. She was a VITA Volunteer and a Hospice Volunteer. In 1993, she was given the Champions for Children Award by the Louisiana Council on Child Abuse (now, Prevent Child Abuse Louisiana.) Mrs. Black is survived by three daughters, Anna Lee Hoffpauir and her husband, Van, of Lake Charles, Bonnie Johnson and her husband, Lyle, of Crowley, and Mildred "Millie" Allison Black, of Lafayette; and a son, David Black Jr., and his wife, Cindy, of Lafayette; six grandchildren, David Hoffpauir and his wife, Melissa "Missy," Martin Hoffpauir and his wife, Nina, Kelly Hoffpauir Champagne and her husband, Aaron, David Black III, Brennon Black and his wife, Melissa, and Jared Johnson; four great-grandchildren, Hannah, Halie, Harley and Luke Hoffpauir; a brother, Edwin Hollowell and his wife, Susie, of New Bern, N.C.; two sisters, Doris Gurley, of Gainesville, Fla., and Mildred Parker, of New Bern, N.C.; a sister-in-law, Coral Woodworth, of Ft. Collins, Colo. She was preceded in death by her husband of 55 years, David E. Black Sr.; and a brother, Heywood Hollowell. The family requests that those who wish may make memorial donations to United Community Health Clinic, 450 Moosa Blvd., Suite E, Eunice, LA 70535. Friends who wish to do so may offer their condolences online at www.geesey-ferguson.com Geesey-Ferguson Funeral Home of Crowley is in charge of arrangements. Published on November 03, 2006.