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Jace B. “Jake” Hennen

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Jace B. “Jake” Hennen

Birth
Lincoln Parish, Louisiana, USA
Death
4 Dec 1973 (aged 75)
West Monroe, Ouachita Parish, Louisiana, USA
Burial
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Monroe Morning World (Monroe, Louisiana) Sunday - 6 August 1950 pg26
W. M. POLICEMAN JACK HENNEN HAS BUSINESS OF REPAIRING MACHINES
By Percy Fant of the Morning World Staff
Jake Hennen is a West Monroe police officer who has developed a profitable sideline - that of repairing washing and sewing machines. While on duty Jake watches parking meters downtown. When he goes home (114 Register Street, West Monroe), he discards his uniform for work clothes and starts repairing the machine that's first in line. Interesting as it is, Jake never used a medium of advertisement. In his own works, he explains the success of his somewhat "booming" business like this: "When I do a job for a person, he tells other people about me and right now, I have on the average of 20 machines a month to turn out." Although this is important to his business, he attributes the great part of his success to "being fair and honest with people." Jake learned to repair sewing machines while working several years for the Singer Company here. The son of a Lincoln Parish railroad man and merchant, Jake was born June 2, 1897 in Lincoln Parish and moved to Ouachita Parish in 1925. He was employed with the State Highway Department as stockroom clerk for eleven years prior to accepting a position with the local Singer Company. Since that time, he has worked as timekeeper for a railroad company.

Jake, who joined the West Monroe Police Department almost nine years ago, married the former Miss Clara Myrtle Davis, of Choudrant on August 4, 1916. He has two children, Mrs. Mary Elizabeth DuVall, Jr., of Strong, Arkansas, and a son, Howard "Speedy" Hennen, an employee of Glenn Radiator and Repair Shop, West Monroe. Jake says he only repairs "home" sewing machines and has $700 worth of tools and parts to make most any repair needed for either a washing machine or sewing machine.
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HATS OFF TO HENNEN
POLICE CAPTAIN WORKS, PLAYS WITH ELECTRICITY
By John Cale - Staff Writer
Flashing lights and electrical push - pulls bring work and play close together for Captain J. B. "Jake" Hennen of the West Monroe Police Department. On duty, Captain Hennen keeps the traffic in working order - among other things - and at home, well, one can imagine the possibilities in Christmas decorations. On the front porch at the Hennen residence, 114 Register Street, West Monroe, Captain "Jake" has set up a revolving tree, a right and left-facing Santa Claus and a church with an opening and closing door.
THE LAYOUT
The layout features a fireplace, figurines, dolls and wrapped gifts - nothing that would indicate motion - until the switch is pulled. They the tree, mounted on a phonograph turntable, begins to rotate about three or four times a minute with the lights blazing. If this brings up a problem of electricity such as "How can you plug-in the moving objects?" Captain "Jake" could supply you the answers to that and many other questions on gadgets. Hennen has served with the West Monroe Police Department since 1942 as a utility officer. His job includes the care and maintenance of traffic lights, parking meters and endless repair jobs around City Hall. One of such duties is the loading of cartridges for patrolmen's revolvers.
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"Captain Hennen has saved the city a great deal of money by keeping expensive traffic lights in good working order," Police Chief J. W. Caldwell declared. "He has stretched dependable service out of signals which would have otherwise been retired five to ten years ago," Caldwell stated. In addition to keeping parking meters oiled and maintained, Hennen collects and audits the money from them. All of his equipment is housed at present in a tiny room on the second floor of the New City Hall. Hennen has designs on more space when the library moves to its new location and leaves the old building just outside his window vacant. "Still, I like everything within an arm's reach, and that's certainly the way it is in here," Captain "Jake" gestured to his four walls.
INSPIRED TINKERER
With all the pressure now for mass education of scientists, some may recall may of the significant inventions of our day were hit upon by inspired tinkerers. A young person with a wealth of book learning could well afford to observe a person of "Jake" Hennen's talents in action. Theoretical knowledge is necessary, of course, but so is the development of a feeling for that intangible something that takes place where necessity and materials form a flash at the fingertips of a patient man. It is such a flash which has resulted in the world's great inventions.
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Monroe News-Star (Monroe, Louisiana) Thursday - 4 June 1959 pg12
MEANWHILE, BACK AT THE LOUNGE
POLICE IMPROVISE OWN VERSION OF 'PLAYHOUSE 90'
By Steve Henry - Staff Writer
OFFICE FOR JAKE
Major J. B. (Jake) Hennen, Jack Of All Trades for the department who refers to the new nounge as the policeman's "Playhouse 90," also has found a new home in the Old West Monroe Library. Major Hennen, who for some time conducted his handyman's duties from the cramped quarters of second story city hall, finds the back rooms of the library perfectly suited to his needs. A visitor in Major Hennen's "office" is likely to find anything from cases of old shells which he reloads for the force to a sewing machine on which he is presently busy sewing sheets for cots which soon will be added to the lounge. An intricate electrical device which Hennen designed and wired for the testing of the city's traffic lights can be seen on one of the many benches which occupy a great part of the floor space of the two rooms. Paints and brushes which the Major uses in painting traffic signs for the city fill the top of his desk - a desk that has been in many phases of police work over the years that Major Jake Hennen has served the West Monroe Police.
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Monroe News-Star (Monroe, Louisiana) Wednesday - 5 Dec 1973 pg11
J. B. HENNEN
Funeral services for J. B. "Jake" Hennen, 73, of 114 Register Street, West Monroe, were at 2 pm today at the chapel of Mulhearn Funeral Home of West Monroe. The Rev. John Sewell and the Rev. Ira Love officiated with burial at Hasley Cemetery in West Monroe. Mr. Hennen died Tuesday at his residence following a lengthy illness.

A native of Choudrant, Mr. Hennen was a long-time resident of West Monroe. He was retired from the West Monroe Police Department in 1963 after 21 years service. He held membership in the Louisiana Peace Officer Association, West Monroe Masonic Lodge No. 419 and the McGuire United Methodist Church.

Mr. Hennon is survived by his wife:
Mrs. Clara Davis Hennen of West Monroe
His son:
Howard W. (Speedy) Hennen of Sterlington
His daughter:
Mrs. Mary Elizabeth Duvall Hughes of West Monroe
His two brother:
Virgil Hennen of Choudrant
John Hennen of Monroe
His three sisters:
Mrs. Lucille Halstead of Choudrant
Mrs. Gulena Aulds of Choudrant
Mrs. Willie Rinehart of Choudrant
Pallbearers will be members of the =West Monroe Police Department
Monroe Morning World (Monroe, Louisiana) Sunday - 6 August 1950 pg26
W. M. POLICEMAN JACK HENNEN HAS BUSINESS OF REPAIRING MACHINES
By Percy Fant of the Morning World Staff
Jake Hennen is a West Monroe police officer who has developed a profitable sideline - that of repairing washing and sewing machines. While on duty Jake watches parking meters downtown. When he goes home (114 Register Street, West Monroe), he discards his uniform for work clothes and starts repairing the machine that's first in line. Interesting as it is, Jake never used a medium of advertisement. In his own works, he explains the success of his somewhat "booming" business like this: "When I do a job for a person, he tells other people about me and right now, I have on the average of 20 machines a month to turn out." Although this is important to his business, he attributes the great part of his success to "being fair and honest with people." Jake learned to repair sewing machines while working several years for the Singer Company here. The son of a Lincoln Parish railroad man and merchant, Jake was born June 2, 1897 in Lincoln Parish and moved to Ouachita Parish in 1925. He was employed with the State Highway Department as stockroom clerk for eleven years prior to accepting a position with the local Singer Company. Since that time, he has worked as timekeeper for a railroad company.

Jake, who joined the West Monroe Police Department almost nine years ago, married the former Miss Clara Myrtle Davis, of Choudrant on August 4, 1916. He has two children, Mrs. Mary Elizabeth DuVall, Jr., of Strong, Arkansas, and a son, Howard "Speedy" Hennen, an employee of Glenn Radiator and Repair Shop, West Monroe. Jake says he only repairs "home" sewing machines and has $700 worth of tools and parts to make most any repair needed for either a washing machine or sewing machine.
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HATS OFF TO HENNEN
POLICE CAPTAIN WORKS, PLAYS WITH ELECTRICITY
By John Cale - Staff Writer
Flashing lights and electrical push - pulls bring work and play close together for Captain J. B. "Jake" Hennen of the West Monroe Police Department. On duty, Captain Hennen keeps the traffic in working order - among other things - and at home, well, one can imagine the possibilities in Christmas decorations. On the front porch at the Hennen residence, 114 Register Street, West Monroe, Captain "Jake" has set up a revolving tree, a right and left-facing Santa Claus and a church with an opening and closing door.
THE LAYOUT
The layout features a fireplace, figurines, dolls and wrapped gifts - nothing that would indicate motion - until the switch is pulled. They the tree, mounted on a phonograph turntable, begins to rotate about three or four times a minute with the lights blazing. If this brings up a problem of electricity such as "How can you plug-in the moving objects?" Captain "Jake" could supply you the answers to that and many other questions on gadgets. Hennen has served with the West Monroe Police Department since 1942 as a utility officer. His job includes the care and maintenance of traffic lights, parking meters and endless repair jobs around City Hall. One of such duties is the loading of cartridges for patrolmen's revolvers.
COMMENDED
"Captain Hennen has saved the city a great deal of money by keeping expensive traffic lights in good working order," Police Chief J. W. Caldwell declared. "He has stretched dependable service out of signals which would have otherwise been retired five to ten years ago," Caldwell stated. In addition to keeping parking meters oiled and maintained, Hennen collects and audits the money from them. All of his equipment is housed at present in a tiny room on the second floor of the New City Hall. Hennen has designs on more space when the library moves to its new location and leaves the old building just outside his window vacant. "Still, I like everything within an arm's reach, and that's certainly the way it is in here," Captain "Jake" gestured to his four walls.
INSPIRED TINKERER
With all the pressure now for mass education of scientists, some may recall may of the significant inventions of our day were hit upon by inspired tinkerers. A young person with a wealth of book learning could well afford to observe a person of "Jake" Hennen's talents in action. Theoretical knowledge is necessary, of course, but so is the development of a feeling for that intangible something that takes place where necessity and materials form a flash at the fingertips of a patient man. It is such a flash which has resulted in the world's great inventions.
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Monroe News-Star (Monroe, Louisiana) Thursday - 4 June 1959 pg12
MEANWHILE, BACK AT THE LOUNGE
POLICE IMPROVISE OWN VERSION OF 'PLAYHOUSE 90'
By Steve Henry - Staff Writer
OFFICE FOR JAKE
Major J. B. (Jake) Hennen, Jack Of All Trades for the department who refers to the new nounge as the policeman's "Playhouse 90," also has found a new home in the Old West Monroe Library. Major Hennen, who for some time conducted his handyman's duties from the cramped quarters of second story city hall, finds the back rooms of the library perfectly suited to his needs. A visitor in Major Hennen's "office" is likely to find anything from cases of old shells which he reloads for the force to a sewing machine on which he is presently busy sewing sheets for cots which soon will be added to the lounge. An intricate electrical device which Hennen designed and wired for the testing of the city's traffic lights can be seen on one of the many benches which occupy a great part of the floor space of the two rooms. Paints and brushes which the Major uses in painting traffic signs for the city fill the top of his desk - a desk that has been in many phases of police work over the years that Major Jake Hennen has served the West Monroe Police.
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Monroe News-Star (Monroe, Louisiana) Wednesday - 5 Dec 1973 pg11
J. B. HENNEN
Funeral services for J. B. "Jake" Hennen, 73, of 114 Register Street, West Monroe, were at 2 pm today at the chapel of Mulhearn Funeral Home of West Monroe. The Rev. John Sewell and the Rev. Ira Love officiated with burial at Hasley Cemetery in West Monroe. Mr. Hennen died Tuesday at his residence following a lengthy illness.

A native of Choudrant, Mr. Hennen was a long-time resident of West Monroe. He was retired from the West Monroe Police Department in 1963 after 21 years service. He held membership in the Louisiana Peace Officer Association, West Monroe Masonic Lodge No. 419 and the McGuire United Methodist Church.

Mr. Hennon is survived by his wife:
Mrs. Clara Davis Hennen of West Monroe
His son:
Howard W. (Speedy) Hennen of Sterlington
His daughter:
Mrs. Mary Elizabeth Duvall Hughes of West Monroe
His two brother:
Virgil Hennen of Choudrant
John Hennen of Monroe
His three sisters:
Mrs. Lucille Halstead of Choudrant
Mrs. Gulena Aulds of Choudrant
Mrs. Willie Rinehart of Choudrant
Pallbearers will be members of the =West Monroe Police Department


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