Hattie Hooks Maselli, 99, passed away Sunday, December 28, 2008 at Palestine Regional Hospital in Palestine.
Funeral service is scheduled for Friday, January 2, 2009 at 2:00 pm in the chapel of Broussard’s in Nederland. Interment will follow in Memory Gardens Cemetery in Nederland. A gathering of family and friends will be from 5:00 to 8:00 pm Thursday, January 1, 2009 at the mortuary.
Hattie was a native of Roganville and lived the majority of her life in Bleakwood. She lived in Port Arthur 15 years before returning to Kirbyville to live the rest of her life. She was a seamstress for many years and made many quilts during her lifetime. As a young lady she sang in a church quartet with her brothers. She will be remembered as a loving sister, aunt, wife, mother, grandmother, great grandmother, great-great grandmother and great-great-great grandmother who loved her family and was always there for whatever their needs may have been. Hattie was especially thankful for the care she received in her latter years by her granddaughter and grandson-in-law Judy and Bobby Joe Hutchison.
Hattie is survived by her daughter, Bobbie Jo Williams-Housman of Newton; sisters, Mary Hooks Mondello of Oklahoma, Susie Hooks Broussard of Port Arthur and Finetta Hooks Cochran of Kirbyville. 7 grandchildren, 19 great-grandchildren, 37 great-great-grandchildren and 2 great-great-great grandchildren. She was preceded in death by her husband Tony Maselli, her son Richard Williams, 5 brothers, 1 grandson and 1 great-grandson. She will be especially missed by her four legged canine companion Star.
