Cordelia J. Hensley Tuttle

CORDELIA J.
HENSLEY TUTTLE

Apr. 19, 1917 – Jan. 7, 2010

Cordelia J. Hensley Tuttle was born April 19, 1917 in Maysville, Arkansas to Horace Greeley and Lydia Gates. She was the fourth of ten children. The family moved to Oklahoma and later settled in Wynnewood, a farming community, where Cordelia met and married her first husband, Albert Hensley.
In 1941 Cordelia and Albert's small family moved to Imperial County, California, where Albert first worked as a farmhand and then as a skilled carpenter. Cordelia worked in Holtville on the conveyor line in various vegetable packing sheds. Later she was promoted to floor lady at the Joe Maggio shed. After Albert died in 1966, Cordelia moved to Chandler, Arizona to work as floor lady for Anthony Maggio. There she met Eugene I. Tuttle and they were married in 1979. After Eugene passed away in 1989 Cordelia moved back to Imperial County to be closer to her children.
Cordelia was an excellent cook and a skilled seamstress. She enjoyed crocheting, quilting, gardening, and reading. She was an avid letter writer who corresponded often with her friends and relatives.
On January 7, 2010, Cordelia, 92 years old, went home to be with the Lord. She was predeceased by her son-in-law Larry Hicks. Cordelia is survived by her twin siblings, Buelah Mae Smith of Stratford, Oklahoma and Claude Ray Gates of Elkhart, Texas; her son and daughter-in-law, Albert and Georgia Hensley, Jr. of Brawley, CA; her daughter, Marjetta Masserini of Brawley; her daughter and son-in-law, Lida and Kenneth Spencer of Paso Robles, CA; her daughter, Nancy Hicks of El Centro; her step-daughter and spouse, Jeanne and Frank Wittie of Las Vegas, NV; her grandchildren Cheryl Von Flue, Linda (Lee) Shumard-Hindman, John (Monica) Masserini, II, Greg Masserini, Michelle (David) Overstreet, Janet (Darren) Dickey, Mark Hensley, A.J. Hensley, Gus Rangel, Delia Rangel, Stephen (Laura) Rangel, Timothy Rangel, Alyce (Josh Douglas) Herrera, Robert (Linda) Hicks, and Lance (Ana) Hicks; 29 great-grandchildren; 17 great-great-grandchildren and many nieces and nephews and their families.
Visitation will be Wednesday, January 13, 2010 from 6 to 9 p.m. at Hems Chapel in El Centro. Funeral services will be held on Thursday, January 14, 2010 at 10 a.m. at the First United Methodist Church, 133 "K" Street, Brawley, CA. Interment will be at Evergreen Cemetery, El Centro, CA.