OBIT: Gladiolus Litton Laxton, 2002, Boyle Co. & TN ------------------------------- *********************************************************************** USGENWEB ARCHIVES NOTICE: These electronic pages may NOT be reproduced in any format for profit or presentation by any other organization or persons. Persons or organizations desiring to use this material, must obtain the written consent of the contributor, or the legal representative of the submitter, and contact the listed USGenWeb archivist with proof of this consent. The submitter has given permission to the USGenWeb Archives to store the file permanently for free access. http://www.usgwarchives.net ********************************************************************** From the Danville Advocate Messenger, 19 Mar 2002 Services for Gladiolus Litton Laxton, 97, of Madison Avenue will be 1 p.m. Thursday at Stith Funeral Home by the Revs. Tim McKenzie and J.R. Johnson. Burial will be in Danville Memorial Gardens. She died Sunday at her home. Born Feb. 5, 1905, in Scott County, Tenn., she was the daughter of the late Horace and Abagail Chambers Litton. She was a homemaker and had been an operator for South Central Bell. She was a former president and lifetime member of the Women's Missionary Society at First Church of God where she also was a Sunday school teacher for 50 years. She served chaplain for the Retired Railway and Veterans Club. She was a poet and songwriter and had been awarded an Editors Choice Award for Outstanding Achievement in Poetry by the National Library of Poetry. She was the widow of W.D. Laxton. Survivors include two daughters, Nancy Mable Pike of Danville and Olive M. Cohron of Ocala, Fla.; a brother, Horace Litton of Danville; a sister, Edna Newby of Danville; five grandchildren; 20 great-grandchildren; and 18 great-great-grandchildren. She was preceded in death by two grandchildren. Pallbearers will be Kelly Cohran, Geoffrey Holtzclaw, Bob Newby, Horace Huffman, Wendell Spigle, William Lay and Charles Yankey. Visitation will be after 5 p.m. Wednesday. Memorials may go to First Church of God.