Each year Mrs. Hulette and everyone in the family ranging from Mike, 7, to Tressie Sue, 2, to Mrs. Dan Moore, enjoyed Christmas opening presents together and Mrs. Hulette--despite her years--always sat on the floor and played with the children as they enjoyed their gifts.
But last Monday tragedy struck. At 5:30 a.m. Mrs. Hulette's clothing caught fire and before it was put out by some tenants living in another part of the house the blaze had burned more than 70 per cent of body. She died five days later at the King's Daughters Hospital here.
Before the tragedy struck Mrs. Hulette's family had for seven years included five generations all active and all living in Franklin County. Even with her large family Mrs. Hulette remained independent until she died. She had lived alone since the death of her husband 22 years before but she did not let her age keep her from doing all her own cooking and housekeeping. Until her eyesight began failing sometime ago she enjoyed making quilts but even with poor eyesight she would get outside to bring in her own wood or go into the field to pick berries.
But things of the modern world were not popular with Mrs. Hulette. It took the family a long time to get electricity into her home, and even though they gave her a radio she would never use it.
Her family tried to get her to live with Mrs. Dan Moore, but never succeeded. Even when she fell sick last Christmas Mrs. Hulette's first though was to return to the farm. There she was well-known and well-liked. She was a charter member of the Choateville Christian Church and popular with neighborhood children. Her home was a popular gathering place and members of her family looked forward to visits there.
Mrs. Hulette is survived by her daughter, Mrs. Moore; two brothers, Robert and Sylvester Sudduth, Franklin County and her grandchildren.
Funeral services will be conducted in Rogers Chapel at 2:30 p.m. today by Dr. John Chenault. Interment will follow in the family lot in the Choateville Cemetery. James, Newell, Vernon, Neville and Robert Sudduth Jr., and Elmer Hulette, all nephews, will serve as bearers.
Choateville Christian Church Cemetery, Franklin County, Ky
Survivors include his wife, Mrs. Lutie Ockerman Duncan; five daughters, Mrs. John A. McGaughey, Lawrenceburg, Mrs. Estill Crocker; Lynchburg, Tenn., Mrs. James E. Flora, Frankfort, Ky., Mrs. Charles Spencer, Midway and Mrs. Billye Hall, Lexington, Ky.; four sons, Joseph W. and Emmett Duncan of Lexington, Leslie K. Duncan, Midway, and Henry Duncan, Jr., Ft. Wayne, Indiana.
Funeral services will be conducted in Miller-Blackburn Funeral Home, Versailles, Thursday morning at 10 o'clock by the Rev. Virgil Fryman, pastor of the Midway Methodist CHurch. Interment will follow in the Carlisle cemetery at Carlisle.
John Harmon, Wilson Stephenson, Elgin Duncan, Samuel Riddle, Billie North, and John McGaughey Jr., will serve as bearers.
Carlisle Cemetery, Carlisle, Ky
Clark said Mrs. Blades was on her way to work at the Sylvania plant in Versailles when the accident occurred. Deputy Sheriff Paul Sames said the car hit a tree.
Mrs. Blades was a member of the Midway Nazarene Church. Survivors are a daughter, Tammy Jane Blades, Midway; her mother, Mrs. Mamie Wilson, Midway; two sisters, Pamela and Priscilla Wilson, Midway; a brother, Ronia Dale Wilson, Germany, and her grandmother, Mrs. Rosa Wilson, Midway.
Funeral services will be conducted at 11 a.m. today at the Duell-Clark Funeral Chapel. Burial will be in the Midway Cemetery.
Mrs. Wiley died Thursday at Central Baptist Hospital. She became ill early Thursday. She was a native of Franklin County and was a daughter of Mrs. Maria Gallahue carter, Woodford County, and the late Frank Carter. She attended Versailles schools and was a member of Rosemont Baptist Church.
Besides her husband and mother, she is survived by a daughter, Mrs. John Folz, Lexington; two brothers, Frank James Carter and Donald Carter, Woodford County, and two sisters, Mrs. Mildred Moore and Mrs. Peggy Hippe, both of Woodford County.
Sunset Memorial Gardens, Woodford County, Ky
A native of Franklin County, born March 4, 1912, she had made Franklin County her home all her lifetime. She had been employed by the Kentucky Department of Corrections until she retired because of illness. Mrs. Hudnall was a member of the Antioch Church of Christ.
Survivors besides her husband and mother include two daughters, Mrs. R. D. McDonald of Atlanta, Ga. and Mrs. Leland Quire of Frankfort; one son, Joe Pat Pardi of Frankfort, three sisters; Mrs. Henry Lewis, Mrs. Connie Peyton and Mrs. William English all of Frankfort; four brothers; Arthur of Louisville, Homer of Owensboro, William of Cleveland, Frank Pulliam of Frankfort.
The body is at the Harrod Funeral Home where services will be conducted 2 p.m. Monday. The Rev. Asa Baber of Tell City, Indiana will officiate, assisted by the Rev. J. W. Blaes pastor of the Antioch Church of Christ. Burial will follow in the family lot in the Sunset Memorial Gardens in Woodford County.
Bearers will be Johnny McCann, Tommy Stivers, Eddie Holster, Joe Pardi, Kirby Jones, and Phillip Goin.
Sunset Memorial Gardens, Woodford County, Ky
Mrs. Dunn died at the Woodford Memorial hospital Thursday night, January 27 after having been admitted late that afternoon. She was a native of Owen county but had been a resident of Versailles since her childhood. Mrs. Dunn was a member of the Baptist church, her membership being with a congregation in Owen county.
Survivors include three daughters, Mrs. William Locker and Mrs. Bailey Thurman, both of Frankfort, and Mrs. James Wilder, Erie, Pa.; four sons, Wallace Dunn, Lexington, and Robert Dunn, Ernest T. Dunn and William Dunn, all of Versailles; two sisters, Mrs. James Housley and Mrs. Lizzie Marrs, both of Frankfort; one brother, Robert Locker, Frankfort, and 18 grandchildren.
Burial was in the Versailles cemetery and pallbearers included Leo Dunn, Wallace Dunn, Virgil Dunn, Wallace Freeman, George McDaniel and Ralph Yeary.
Versailles Cemetery, Versailles, Ky
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