By Staff
March 3, 2006
Funeral for Doris J. Pitman, 84, of Hartselle was Monday, March 6, at 1 p.m. at Peck Funeral Home Chapel with the Rev. Danny Gibson officiating.
Burial was in Hartselle Memory Gardens.
Mrs. Pitman died Friday, March 3, 2006, at Hartselle Medical Center. She was born July 10, 1921, in Morgan County to Oates Edwin Johnson and Jennie Ora Stelle Johnson.
She was a member of West End Methodist Church. She was a loving sister, mother, grandmother and friend to all those who knew her. She enjoyed playing Skip-bo with friends at Hartselle Nutritional Site and singings at Summerford Nursing Home as long as her health permitted. She was preceded in death by husbands, Elmer Handley and D. C. Pitman.
She is survived by a daughter, Joyce Handley Breeding of Falkville; two brothers, Roy B. Johnson and wife O'Dell of Moulton and James Edwin Johnson and wife Sarah of Trinity; four sisters, Louise Allen and husband Howard C., Betha Holtzclaw and husband William and Martha Sparkman and husband Richard, all of Decatur and Beulah Crow of Romulus, Mich.; three grandchildren; 11 great-grandchildren; and three great-great-grandchildren.
Pallbearers were nephews and grandsons Chris Breeding, Ray Breeding, Joey Allen, Jerry "Pete" Holtzclaw, Brian Johnson and Mike Johnson.