By BECKY KISER
Hays Post

After working in real estate since 1972, Hays resident Louise McCord, 87, is ready to retire from the business.

Currently a broker-agent with Coldwell Banker Executive Realty, McCord and her husband Carl were part owners of United Service Agency in Russell from 1972 until 1987.

After Carl died in 1987, Louise moved to Hays in 1992. She purchased a home and and went to work for Patty Stull, owner-broker of Coldwell Banker Executive Realty, where McCord has been the past 26 years.

During the 1980s, McCord also worked for several local real estate agencies including Century 21 and Landmark Realty.

“Working as a realtor with the purpose of helping people with some of the biggest decisions of their lives,” is one of McCord’s best Hays memories.

“Being a broker-agent with Coldwell Banker Executive Realty, I have many friends from being associated with CBER,” McCord said in a news release.

“I have enjoyed the people of Hays and those I have worked with over the years.”

McCord has also been active in the Hays Board of Realtors, First United Methodist Church, Soroptimists, Hays Area Chamber of Commerce and Tiger Club.

McCord was born in Great Bend in 1931.

She has two daughters, Karen, Sarasota, Fla., and Sharon, Oklahoma City. Her granddaughter Julie, Topeka, is married and has three children, Anthony, Jaya and Mya.