In 2008, she appeared with her namesake granddaughter, Nell Rebowe, in Glamour Magazine in an article titled “Inherited Beauty”. In 1996, she was nominated for the Quota Club Woman of the Year. She and Tripp were early members of the Krewe of Janus. She thoroughly enjoyed playing bridge with her friends and growing beautiful flowers in her gardens. She was an active member of the Monroe Garden Club, the Junior Charity League, the Fort Miro Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution, the U.W.C.A., the Silver Waters Girl Scout Council, the Northeast Louisiana University Alumni Association and the NLU Golden Society. She was a life-long Methodist and was a Sunday school teacher for over 43 years. During her life Nell was very active in her church and in Monroe civic life. Married for more than sixty years, they remained in love with each other until Tripp’s death in 2009. On January 1, 1949, she married Reynolds Trippett Faulk, Jr. Thereafter she worked for her father at Lumbermen’s Supply Company in Monroe. She attended Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge and earned an associate degree from Northeast Louisiana Junior College in 1943. Nell graduated from Cotton Valley High School. Nell Davis Hayes Faulk was born on Apin Cotton Valley, Louisiana, one of the three daughters of Howard Reed Hayes and Flora Sue Davis Hayes.
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