Nave, Harold Wayne

Services for Harold Wayne Nave will be 2 p.m. Saturday, November 11, 2006, 
in the chapel of Rader Funeral Home, with the Rev. Steven Johnson and Dr. 
Gary Orr officiating. Mr. Nave passed away on Tuesday, November 7, 2006, 
at a local hospital. Services are under the direction of Rader Funeral 
Home of Longview. The family will receive friends from 7-8:30 p.m. Friday 
evening, November 10, 2006, at the funeral home. Harold Wayne Nave of 
Longview, Texas, died November 7, 2006, at the age of 80. He was preceded 
in death by his wife of 56 years, Mary Lou Nave; and by his eldest son, Dr. 
Dennis Nave. He was survived by his children, Dale Nave and wife, Barbara 
of Wimberley, Lou Vonne Johnson and husband, Steven of Caldwell, and Evan 
Nave of Austin; grandchildren, Natalie and Nicholas Nave of Shreveport, 
Louisiana, and Isaac and Audrey Johnson of Caldwell; sister, Ann Huffstutler; 
and brother, Gene Nave of Illinois. Mr. Nave was born November 5, 1926, in 
Eldorado, Illinois. He married Mary Lou Barton in 1946. In 1963, the family 
moved to Stillwater, Oklahoma, and in 1967, to Longview. Harold came to L
ongview to be general manager of a new Archway Cookie Company bakery. In 1973, 
he bought and operated a gasoline service station and automotive shop at two 
locations on Mobberly Avenue under the name of Chuck's Texaco and later 
A-Service Motors. In the 1990s, Harold bought a building on Estes Parkway by 
the LeTourneau domes and continued to operate an automotive shop and also a 
small trucking company under the name of Conner Package Service and a paper 
recycling business. Mr. Nave was a simple, quiet man known for his moderation, 
sobriety, fairness, and decency to others. He was a loyal husband and father. 
He continued to run his business until the day he entered the hospital seven 
weeks ago. While continuing to work into his late 70s, he took care of his 
wife, Mary Lou, through two decades of a severe illness that crippled her. 
Although Mr. Nave lost most of his hearing in his early 30s, he did not 
hesitate to be an active businessman throughout his career. In the early 1960s, 
Harold was ordained as a Baptist minister, and though he did not pursue a career 
in church work, his life was guided by his Christian ethics and faith. The 
family would like to give special thanks to Morris and Evelyn Johnson, the 
parents of Lou Vonne's husband, and to lifelong friends, Jeanne Luster and 
family, for the great love they showed Harold and Mary Lou and the Nave family 
through the years. The family also thanks Sheri Maurer, caregiver and companion 
of both Harold and Mary Lou, for her service and love shown to them in the final 
years of their life. The family would also like to thank Drs. Nayini, Shin, 
McGee, and Scott and the nursing staff of Good Shepherd Hospital for taking good 
care of Harold until the end. A memorial guestbook may be signed online at 
www.raderfh.com.

Published in the Longview News-Journal on 11/10/2006.