Harriett Walton

GLADEWATER -- Services for Harriett Walton will be 10:30 a.m. Tuesday, December 27, 2005, at Croley Funeral Home Chapel in Gladewater, with Dr. W.D. O'Neal and Larry W. Osborne officiating. Burial will be 2 p.m. Wednesday, December 28, 2005, in Woodlawn Cemetery in Claremore, Okla., with Larry W. Osborne officiating. She was a retired journalist who had been a member of The Gladewater Mirror staff for 51 years. She was a past president of the Daleth Study Club, the Gladewater Garden Club and the Friends of Lee Library. She was also a member of the Gladewater Music Club, the Gladewater Museum Association, and served as director on the Manna House board of directors. A lifelong Presbyterian, she was a member of Gladewater's First Church where she was an elder and served as pianist. She is survived by one daughter, Carolyn Kern Walton of Gladewater; one brother and sister-in-law, Jerry and Shirley Kates; two sisters, Mary Jean Elrod and Fredalene Ruggles, all of Gladewater; two grandchildren, Candace Hogan of Austin, and Jonathan Bengtson of Plano; one great-grandson, Christopher Hope of Austin; and several nieces and nephews. Mrs. Walton was preceded in death by her husband, Glenn Walton; and her parents, Harry and Mary Kates. If so desired, memorials may be made to the Jack Kates Scholarship Fund, P.O. Box 1526, Gladewater, Texas 75647, or the American Heart Association, Gregg County Division, P.O. Box 1492, Gladewater, Texas 75647. Nephews will be honorary pallbearers. The family will receive friends from 6:30-8:30 p.m. today, December 26, 3005, at Croley Funeral Home in Gladewater.