Rachel Julia Hannah Hackworth

donated by: Robie and Betty Prater

Rachel Julia Hackworth1911-2002

    Funeral services were held Wednesday, January 16, 2002 at the Bonanza Freewill Baptist Church at Bonanza, Ky. for Rachel Julia Hackworth, 90, who passed away Sunday, January 13 following a extended illness.

    Mrs. Hackworth was born November 25, 1911 at Leander, daughter of the late Ross and Virgie Rivers Hannah. She was preceded in death by her husband, Eddie Hackworth; two brothers, Freddie and Arvil Hannah; one son, Wallace Dewey Hackworth; one daughter, Margie Lee Hackworth; four sisters, Ora Lee Whitten, Lydia Blair, Audrey Hannah and Juanita Hannah. Surviving are three sons, William Sanford Hackworth of Prestonsburg, Ross Edward Hackworth of North Manchester, Indiana, Ishmael (Buddy) Hackworth of Prestonsburg; four daughters, Anna Marie Prater of Akron, Indiana, Edna Carol Nelson of Prestonsburg, Genoia Hackworth and Donna Hackworth, both of Prestonsburg; one brother, Alvis Hannah of Vanlue, Ohio; three sisters, Eulah Blair of Johnson County, Eunice Snipes of Troy, Ohio, and Edna Mae Hackworth of Paintsville; 20 grandchildren; 42 great-grandchildren; six great-great-grandchildren; also surviving are two girls whom they loved and raised as their granddaughters, Candy and Courtney Halbert, both of Prestonsburg.

    The service was officiated by Jimmy Brown, Jack Adkins, Buddy Jones and Dennis Conley, with burial following in Hackworth Family Cemetery, Bonanza. Arrangements under the direction of Nelson-Frazier Funeral Home, Martin.