Extracted from The El Dorado Times (El Dorado, AR)
HATTIE P. DENSON
Hattie Pearl Denson, 80, of 1201 Rock Island, died in a local hospital Tuesday after a long illness.
She was born Jan. 19, 1893 in Rattan, La., the daughter of Albert and Lucy Mathews Cox. She was a Baptist, a 45 year resident of El Dorado.
Survivors include her husband, Jess Denson; a brother, Leonard Cox of Orange, Tex.; two sisters, Mrs. Ethel Wiggins of Taylor, Tex., and Mrs. Edna Hardy of San Augustine, Tex.; two grandchildren, eight great grandchildren.
Funeral services will be Thursday at 2 p.m. at the Rumph Mortuary Chapel with the Rev. Roy Hilton officiating.
Burial will be in Arlington Cemetery under the direction of Rumph Mortuary.
Pallbearers are John V. Taylor, Curtis Hammack, Lonnie Wood, Earnest Elam, and Feaster Taylor.
Thurday, December 27, 1973