Hiney Kent, member of the LSU track team, President of the College of Agriculture and a member of the ODK Honor Society, died on Jan. 17 in Lafayette, La. He was 98 years old.
Kent was SEC high jump champion in 1935 and 1937, and named to the AAU All American team of 1938 in the triple jump. One of his great memories was of a dual meet in Olympic Stadium in Berlin, Germany. The meet was only months before Hitler invaded Poland beginning World War II. “It looked just like the news reels, flags and soliders everywhere,” Kent said.
Kent was born in Zachary, La., on Nov. 18, 1912, where in 1990 he was in the first group of 10 inductees in the Zachary High School Hall of Fame.
He was married to Laura Kent for 69 years. He is survived by three children, Barrie Wentzell of San Diego, Calif.; Dr. Elaine Taylor of Lafayette, La.; and Gerry Kent, of Jackson, Miss. (LSU football letterman ’66, ’67, ’68).
Kent was laid to rest beside his wife at the Azalea Rest Cemetery in Zachary, La.