Harold Ford, retired executive director of what was then Southeastern Poultry & Egg Association (now U.S. Poultry & Egg Association), died Friday, December 14, 2012. Visitation will be Sunday, December, 16, from 4 – 6 p.m. at A.S. Turner Funeral Home in Decatur, Ga. The funeral will be held at 11 a.m. on Monday, December 17, at Smoke Rise Baptist Church in Stone Mountain, Ga.
In 1954, Ford, a Kentucky native, originally joined the Association staff at its headquarters in Richmond, Va. He had previously served as assistant commissioner of agriculture in Kentucky. In 1957, he was named executive secretary of the Association, commonly called SOUTHEASTERN. The headquarters was moved to Decatur, Ga.