Death: Hatcher, Wesley C. "Shorty" 1914-2002
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Submitter: Kim [mailto:kslone@erienet.net]
     Sent: Wednesday, January 30, 2002 
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 The Lorain Morning Journal  (Lorain, Lorain County, Ohio)

      LORAIN -- Wesley C. ''Shorty'' Hatcher, 87, of Lorain, died
Thursday, Jan. 24, 2002, at New Life Hospice Residential Center,
Lorain, following a brief illness.
      He was born July 8, 1914, in Harold, Floyd County, Ky., where
he lived until moving to Lorain in 1952.
      He served in the U.S. Navy during World War II and worked for
U.S. Steel, retiring in 1976 after 24 years as a pipe fitter in the
No. 1 Pipe Shop.
      He was trustee of the No. 1 Pipe Fitter Social Club and United
Steelworkers of America Local 1104. He was instrumental in bringing
many people from eastern Kentucky to work at U.S. Steel in Lorain. He
enjoyed growing vegetables, which he sold or gave away from the back
of his pickup truck.
      Survivors include his son, John W. Hatcher of Vermilion;
daughters Nancy Fly of Amherst and Judy Sheriff of Lorain; 12
grandchildren, 25 great-grandchildren and four
great-great-grandchildren. He was preceded in death by his wife of 59
years, Gladys V. Hatcher (nee King); son, Bernard Hatcher; daughters
Christine and Patty Jean Hatcher, both in infancy; parents, David and
Ada (nee Taylor) Hatcher; sister, Beatrice Hatcher, in infancy;
brothers Bernard B., Donald P. and Thomas S. Hatcher; and a grandson.
      Arrangements were made at Hempel Funeral Home, 373 Cleveland Ave.,
Amherst, OH. Services were held Monday January 28, 2002  at 11 a.m.. 
The Rev. Rick Chapman, associate pastor of Church of the Open Door, 
officiated. Burial will be in Ridge Hill Memorial Park,
Amherst Township, OH.
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