THE VIRGINIAN-PILOT
Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: Tuesday, December 12, 1995 TAG: 9512120227
SECTION: LOCAL PAGE: B10 EDITION: FINAL
DATELINE: HARRISONBURG LENGTH: Short : 34 lines
Lela Ennis Watson Hyatt, 78, died at the Sunnyside Presbyterian Retirement Community near Harrisonburg, Dec. 9, 1995, where she had lived for the past 19 years. Mrs. Hyatt was preceded in death by her husband, Harry Joe Hyatt, whom she married June 2, 1939.
She was born Jan. 3, 1917, in North Wilkesboro, N.C., and was a daughter of the late John Dixon and Cora Michael Watson. She had been a bookkeeper employed at the Norfolk Naval Air Station. While she lived in Norfolk, she was a member of the Coleman Place Presbyterian Church, serving as a Sunday School Teacher for 18 years, moving her membership to the Massanutten Presbyterian Church when she moved to the Sunnyside Presbyterian Retirement Community.
She is survived by a sister, Pearl Ericson of Cambridge, Ill.
Funeral services will be conducted Wednesday at 2:30 p.m. in the Massanutten Presbyterian Church near Harrisonburg by the Rev. Donald R. Allen. Burial will be in the Eastlawn Memorial Gardens. A memorial service will be conducted in the Bethel Chapel at the Sunnyside Presbyterian Retirement Community on Thursday at 3:30 p.m. by the Rev. James E. Gutherie and the Rev. J. Hoge Smith. Mrs. Hyatt is at the Kyger-Pence Funeral Home near McGaheysville where friends may call at anytime. Memorial contributions may be made to either the Massanutten Presbyterian Church, Route 1, Box 483, Penn Laird, Va. 22846 or to Sunnyside Presbyterian Retirement Community, 100 Sunnyside Drive, Harrisonburg, Va. 22801.
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