Hettie Gauthier, longtime resident of Bloomfield, passed away Thursday, June 24, 2010, at the Denton Rehabilitation and Nursing Center in Denton, Texas. She had been living in Denton since April of 2009. Hettie was born Sept. 8, 1914, in Kaufman County, Texas, the third of six children of Boliver and Laura Dodd, who were early settlers of the Rose Hill community near Dallas.
Hettie was baptized into Christ in a pond near that Rose Hill home and remained a member of the Church of Christ all her life.
She had three children. Her two sons are John A. Dodd, deceased, and Michael Mark Gauthier of Farmington. Her daughter, Marilyn Gauthier Marrs, lives in Krum, Texas. She has nine grandchildren, 24 great-grandchildren and 16 great-great-grandchildren.
Her generation is remembered for winning World War II. Hettie played her part as she made disposable rubber fuel tanks for the bombers and packed rations for the soldier boys. She is our family's version of "Rosie the Riveter."
She and her husband, Jerome "Blackie" Gauthier, were married June 30, 1943, and moved to Bloomfield in the mid-1950s. Blackie worked as a welder in the nearby petroleum fields before he preceded her in death in 1978.
Hettie worked more than 30 years in the Bloomfield Schools lunchrooms as a cook and baker. She was also a talented painter and doll maker. Her friends and her family will fondly remember her skills in the kitchen, especially, her fried chicken and chocolate pie.
Graveside services will be at 10 a.m. Wednesday, July 7, at Memory Gardens, 6917 E. Main St., in Farmington.
Arrangements are with Cope Memorial Chapel, 404 W. Arrington St., in Farmington; (505) 327-5142.
Published in Farmington Daily Times on July 2, 2010
Hettie was baptized into Christ in a pond near that Rose Hill home and remained a member of the Church of Christ all her life.
She had three children. Her two sons are John A. Dodd, deceased, and Michael Mark Gauthier of Farmington. Her daughter, Marilyn Gauthier Marrs, lives in Krum, Texas. She has nine grandchildren, 24 great-grandchildren and 16 great-great-grandchildren.
Her generation is remembered for winning World War II. Hettie played her part as she made disposable rubber fuel tanks for the bombers and packed rations for the soldier boys. She is our family's version of "Rosie the Riveter."
She and her husband, Jerome "Blackie" Gauthier, were married June 30, 1943, and moved to Bloomfield in the mid-1950s. Blackie worked as a welder in the nearby petroleum fields before he preceded her in death in 1978.
Hettie worked more than 30 years in the Bloomfield Schools lunchrooms as a cook and baker. She was also a talented painter and doll maker. Her friends and her family will fondly remember her skills in the kitchen, especially, her fried chicken and chocolate pie.
Graveside services will be at 10 a.m. Wednesday, July 7, at Memory Gardens, 6917 E. Main St., in Farmington.
Arrangements are with Cope Memorial Chapel, 404 W. Arrington St., in Farmington; (505) 327-5142.
Published in Farmington Daily Times on July 2, 2010
Hettie Gauthier, longtime resident of Bloomfield, passed away Thursday, June 24, 2010, at the Denton Rehabilitation and Nursing Center in Denton, Texas. She had been living in Denton since April of 2009. Hettie was born Sept. 8, 1914, in Kaufman County, Texas, the third of six children of Boliver and Laura Dodd, who were early settlers of the Rose Hill community near Dallas.
Hettie was baptized into Christ in a pond near that Rose Hill home and remained a member of the Church of Christ all her life.
She had three children. Her two sons are John A. Dodd, deceased, and Michael Mark Gauthier of Farmington. Her daughter, Marilyn Gauthier Marrs, lives in Krum, Texas. She has nine grandchildren, 24 great-grandchildren and 16 great-great-grandchildren.
Her generation is remembered for winning World War II. Hettie played her part as she made disposable rubber fuel tanks for the bombers and packed rations for the soldier boys. She is our family's version of "Rosie the Riveter."
She and her husband, Jerome "Blackie" Gauthier, were married June 30, 1943, and moved to Bloomfield in the mid-1950s. Blackie worked as a welder in the nearby petroleum fields before he preceded her in death in 1978.
Hettie worked more than 30 years in the Bloomfield Schools lunchrooms as a cook and baker. She was also a talented painter and doll maker. Her friends and her family will fondly remember her skills in the kitchen, especially, her fried chicken and chocolate pie.
Graveside services will be at 10 a.m. Wednesday, July 7, at Memory Gardens, 6917 E. Main St., in Farmington.
Arrangements are with Cope Memorial Chapel, 404 W. Arrington St., in Farmington; (505) 327-5142.
Published in Farmington Daily Times on July 2, 2010
Hettie was baptized into Christ in a pond near that Rose Hill home and remained a member of the Church of Christ all her life.
She had three children. Her two sons are John A. Dodd, deceased, and Michael Mark Gauthier of Farmington. Her daughter, Marilyn Gauthier Marrs, lives in Krum, Texas. She has nine grandchildren, 24 great-grandchildren and 16 great-great-grandchildren.
Her generation is remembered for winning World War II. Hettie played her part as she made disposable rubber fuel tanks for the bombers and packed rations for the soldier boys. She is our family's version of "Rosie the Riveter."
She and her husband, Jerome "Blackie" Gauthier, were married June 30, 1943, and moved to Bloomfield in the mid-1950s. Blackie worked as a welder in the nearby petroleum fields before he preceded her in death in 1978.
Hettie worked more than 30 years in the Bloomfield Schools lunchrooms as a cook and baker. She was also a talented painter and doll maker. Her friends and her family will fondly remember her skills in the kitchen, especially, her fried chicken and chocolate pie.
Graveside services will be at 10 a.m. Wednesday, July 7, at Memory Gardens, 6917 E. Main St., in Farmington.
Arrangements are with Cope Memorial Chapel, 404 W. Arrington St., in Farmington; (505) 327-5142.
Published in Farmington Daily Times on July 2, 2010
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