Rains County Leader
February 10, 2004
Eva “Biggie” Hatley
1916 - 2004

Funeral services for Eva “Biggie” Hatley of Point were held at the First Baptist Church at 2:00 p.m. on Sunday, Feb. 8, with Bro. Jay Sikes and Bro. Jim Boyte officiating.   Burial was in Lone Star Cemetery. Pallbearers were Don Smith, Rodney Smith, Mark Smith, Rob Killingsworth, Rayford Briggs and Buster Rivers.  Mrs. Hatley died Thursday, Feb. 5, in Greenville.  She was born in Point on Oct. 10, 1916, to Manley Dawson and Mattie Knox Ivie.  She married Lee Roy Hatley on Dec. 2, 1939, in Lone Oak.  She was a member of Eastern Star, a homemaker, and a Baptist.  She is survived by her children, Helen Stone and husband Jack of Emory, and Pat Hatley of San Diego, Calif.; sisters, (twin) Era (Lit) Hatley of Point, and Ima Borman of Dallas; grandchildren, Wesley Stone and wife Debbie of Emory, and Carol Scott and husband Ricky of Point; great-grandchildren, Tim and Shasta Stone of Tennessee, Kandi and Presley Sellers of Point, Sasha and Kenny Bush of Killeen, and Billy and Lexie Scott of Emory; great-great-grandchildren, Shelby, Sarah, Blake, Cheyanne, Alex, Katelyn, Jordyn, Micah, and Kagen; step-great-grandchildren, Priscilla Abrams and Ricky Scott, Jr.; step-great-great-grandchildren, D.J., Katelyn, Braden, Bailie, Lacey, Tiffany, Nicole and Kenny.  She was preceded in death by her husband on July 14, 1981; and a brother on April 10, 2002.  Arrangements were under the direction of Point Funeral Home.