Funeral for Hilda Beatrice Aldridge Barnette, 81, of Decatur will be Monday, April 19, 2010, at 2 p.m. at Roselawn Funeral Home with Pastor Bill Compton and Pastor Bill Lykins officiating.
Burial will be in Johnson's Chapel Cemetery. Visitation will be tonight from 6 to 8 at the funeral home.
Mrs. Barnette, who succumbed to a lingering illness and then died at Huntsville Hospital on April 15, 2010, was born March 10, 1929 in Morgan County's Upton's Chapel community to William Walter Aldridge and Mabel Olive McCulley. She was a teacher by vocation and attended Florence State Teachers' College, now UNA. She taught both private and public school and was a lifelong advocate of education.
Among her interests were gardening and genealogy. Mrs. Barnette co-authored three books on family ancestry, but her first priorities were her beloved family and friends.
She was preceded in death by one sister, Ola I. Johnson; and five brothers, Richard Seale Aldridge, H. Burch Aldridge, Wilfred H. Aldridge, Milton M. Aldridge and Harold H. Aldridge.
She is survived by her husband of 61 years, John Olen Barnette; son, J. Stephen Barnette Sr. (Helen); two daughters, Deborah J. Finley (Bill) and Patricia I. Davies; brother, James W. Aldridge; and stepsister, Jeannette Blackwood.
Pallbearers will be Mrs. Barnette's grandsons.
In lieu of flowers, donations may be made to the American Red Cross or The Salvation Army.
Originally published in The Decatur Daily on Sunday, April 18, 2010
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Burial will be in Johnson's Chapel Cemetery. Visitation will be tonight from 6 to 8 at the funeral home.
Mrs. Barnette, who succumbed to a lingering illness and then died at Huntsville Hospital on April 15, 2010, was born March 10, 1929 in Morgan County's Upton's Chapel community to William Walter Aldridge and Mabel Olive McCulley. She was a teacher by vocation and attended Florence State Teachers' College, now UNA. She taught both private and public school and was a lifelong advocate of education.
Among her interests were gardening and genealogy. Mrs. Barnette co-authored three books on family ancestry, but her first priorities were her beloved family and friends.
She was preceded in death by one sister, Ola I. Johnson; and five brothers, Richard Seale Aldridge, H. Burch Aldridge, Wilfred H. Aldridge, Milton M. Aldridge and Harold H. Aldridge.
She is survived by her husband of 61 years, John Olen Barnette; son, J. Stephen Barnette Sr. (Helen); two daughters, Deborah J. Finley (Bill) and Patricia I. Davies; brother, James W. Aldridge; and stepsister, Jeannette Blackwood.
Pallbearers will be Mrs. Barnette's grandsons.
In lieu of flowers, donations may be made to the American Red Cross or The Salvation Army.
Originally published in The Decatur Daily on Sunday, April 18, 2010
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Funeral for Hilda Beatrice Aldridge Barnette, 81, of Decatur will be Monday, April 19, 2010, at 2 p.m. at Roselawn Funeral Home with Pastor Bill Compton and Pastor Bill Lykins officiating.
Burial will be in Johnson's Chapel Cemetery. Visitation will be tonight from 6 to 8 at the funeral home.
Mrs. Barnette, who succumbed to a lingering illness and then died at Huntsville Hospital on April 15, 2010, was born March 10, 1929 in Morgan County's Upton's Chapel community to William Walter Aldridge and Mabel Olive McCulley. She was a teacher by vocation and attended Florence State Teachers' College, now UNA. She taught both private and public school and was a lifelong advocate of education.
Among her interests were gardening and genealogy. Mrs. Barnette co-authored three books on family ancestry, but her first priorities were her beloved family and friends.
She was preceded in death by one sister, Ola I. Johnson; and five brothers, Richard Seale Aldridge, H. Burch Aldridge, Wilfred H. Aldridge, Milton M. Aldridge and Harold H. Aldridge.
She is survived by her husband of 61 years, John Olen Barnette; son, J. Stephen Barnette Sr. (Helen); two daughters, Deborah J. Finley (Bill) and Patricia I. Davies; brother, James W. Aldridge; and stepsister, Jeannette Blackwood.
Pallbearers will be Mrs. Barnette's grandsons.
In lieu of flowers, donations may be made to the American Red Cross or The Salvation Army.
Originally published in The Decatur Daily on Sunday, April 18, 2010
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Burial will be in Johnson's Chapel Cemetery. Visitation will be tonight from 6 to 8 at the funeral home.
Mrs. Barnette, who succumbed to a lingering illness and then died at Huntsville Hospital on April 15, 2010, was born March 10, 1929 in Morgan County's Upton's Chapel community to William Walter Aldridge and Mabel Olive McCulley. She was a teacher by vocation and attended Florence State Teachers' College, now UNA. She taught both private and public school and was a lifelong advocate of education.
Among her interests were gardening and genealogy. Mrs. Barnette co-authored three books on family ancestry, but her first priorities were her beloved family and friends.
She was preceded in death by one sister, Ola I. Johnson; and five brothers, Richard Seale Aldridge, H. Burch Aldridge, Wilfred H. Aldridge, Milton M. Aldridge and Harold H. Aldridge.
She is survived by her husband of 61 years, John Olen Barnette; son, J. Stephen Barnette Sr. (Helen); two daughters, Deborah J. Finley (Bill) and Patricia I. Davies; brother, James W. Aldridge; and stepsister, Jeannette Blackwood.
Pallbearers will be Mrs. Barnette's grandsons.
In lieu of flowers, donations may be made to the American Red Cross or The Salvation Army.
Originally published in The Decatur Daily on Sunday, April 18, 2010
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