Kendal Wortham Hurst

MR. KENDAL HURST Mr. Kendal W. Hurst, 66, Mayor of the Town of Moreland, died Thursday, September 4, 2008. The funeral service will be conducted at 4:00 p.m., Sunday, September 7, in the Chapel of Claude A. McKibben and Sons Funeral Home in Hogansville. The Reverend Tim Hosmer will officiate and interment will be in the Luthersville Cemetery, with military honors. Mr. Hurst was born September 1, 1942, in Meriwether county, son of the late Merrill Eugene Hurst and the late Nell Wortham Hurst, and was preceded in death by his step-mother, Martha Reeves Hurst. He was a U.S. Army veteran, having served in the 82nd Airborne Division at Fort Bragg, NC, and was retired from Owings-Corning Fiberglass in Fairburn. He had lived in Moreland for 43 years, where he had served as Town Marshall, as a member of the City Council, and was serving as Mayor at the time of his death. Mr. Hurst was a member of New Friendship Baptist Church at Woodbury and Bigham Masonic Lodge in Moreland. Survivors include his wife, Patricia Cato Hurst, of Moreland; his sons, James Merrill (Jay) Hurst and John Wortham Hurst, both of Moreland; three grandsons, William Ronald Ballou, John Wortham Hurst II, and Whit Gordon Hurst; sister and brother in-law, Brenda and David Templeton of Ellenwood; sisters in-law and brothers in-law, Karen and Russell Stitcher of Moreland, James and Dot Cato and Rob and Susan Cato, all of Greenville; and several nieces and nephews. The Claude A. McKibben and Sons Funeral Home of Hogansville is in charge of arrangements. Visitation: from 6 until 8 Saturday night, September 6th Services: 4:00 p.m., Sunday, September 7th