Before retiring, she had worked as a cook in restaurants. A member of Grayford Road Church in Dupont, Mattie loved quilting, cooking and going to garage sales. She also was a doll collector.
The funeral will be conducted at 2 p.m. Thursday at Norman Funeral Home in Hope with Timmy Poer officiating. Visitation will be Thursday from 10 a.m. until service time at the funeral home. Burial will be at
Flat Rock Baptist Cemetery west of Clifford.
Memorial contributions may be made to Our Hospice of South Central Indiana.
Online condolences may be sent to the family at www.normanfuneralhome.net.
Born January 1, 1931, in Glasgow, Kentucky, Mattie was the daughter of John and Hagar Smith Bushong. She married Thomas J. "Shorty" Erwin and he preceded her in death in November of 1996.
Survivors include daughters, Faye Howard, Sue (Ed) Bates, Debbie Scott and Brenda Erwin, all of Columbus; sons, Jerry (Sharon) Erwin of Flat Rock and Greg (Sherri) Erwin of Columbus; 10 grandchildren; 14 great-grandchildren; and siblings, Raymond Bushong, Anna McDonald, Linda Morgan and John Depp Bushong, all of Glasgow, Kentucky.
Mattie was preceded in death by her parents, her husband, and siblings, William, Richard, James and Geneva Bushong and Betty Reese.
Before retiring, she had worked as a cook in restaurants. A member of Grayford Road Church in Dupont, Mattie loved quilting, cooking and going to garage sales. She also was a doll collector.
The funeral will be conducted at 2 p.m. Thursday at Norman Funeral Home in Hope with Timmy Poer officiating. Visitation will be Thursday from 10 a.m. until service time at the funeral home. Burial will be at
Flat Rock Baptist Cemetery west of Clifford.
Memorial contributions may be made to Our Hospice of South Central Indiana.
Online condolences may be sent to the family at www.normanfuneralhome.net.
Born January 1, 1931, in Glasgow, Kentucky, Mattie was the daughter of John and Hagar Smith Bushong. She married Thomas J. "Shorty" Erwin and he preceded her in death in November of 1996.
Survivors include daughters, Faye Howard, Sue (Ed) Bates, Debbie Scott and Brenda Erwin, all of Columbus; sons, Jerry (Sharon) Erwin of Flat Rock and Greg (Sherri) Erwin of Columbus; 10 grandchildren; 14 great-grandchildren; and siblings, Raymond Bushong, Anna McDonald, Linda Morgan and John Depp Bushong, all of Glasgow, Kentucky.
Mattie was preceded in death by her parents, her husband, and siblings, William, Richard, James and Geneva Bushong and Betty Reese.
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