Obit: Hatton, Russell DeVerr (1895 - 1973)

Contact: Dolores (Mohr) Kenyon
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Surnames: Hatton, Gebson, Antrim

----Source: Clark County Press (Neillsville, Clark Co, WI) 2/29/1973

Hatton, Russell DeVerr (10 October 1895 - 22 February 1973)

Russell DeVerr Hatton, 77, of Greenwood, died at 5:30 a.m. last Thursday at Victory Memorial Hospital in Stanley. He had been a patient there for six days with a fractured hip and pneumonia.

Mr. Hatton was the son of Frank H. and Mary (Gebson) Hatton. He was born October 10, 1985 (1895), in Janesville. He came to Greenwood with his parents in 1903 and they settled on a farm in Janesville Settlement. He lived in Greenwood until 1957, after the death of his mother, when he went to the Clark County Hospital in Owen, where he had been since.

He is survived by a brother, Clark Hatton of Greenwood; and by two nieces and two nephews.

Funeral services were held at 2 p.m. Saturday from the Hill Funeral Home. The Rev. Eugene Antrim, Pastor of Grace United Methodist Church, officiated. Burial was made in the Greenwood Cemetery.