ALTON HATCH Obituary: Terrebonne Parish, La. Submitted by: Louis Lavedan Source: Houma Courier, Houma, Terrebonne Parish, La. 18 Oct 2004 ================================================== ********************************************** Copyright. All rights reserved. http://usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://usgwarchives.net/la/lafiles.htm ********************************************** ================================================== NOTES: 1. The date preceding the obituary is the date of posting on the WWW, not the date of death. ============================= October 12. 2004 12:00AM Alton Hatch [Photo] Alton Thomas Hatch, 90, a native of Big Bayou Black and resident of New Iberia, died at 8:15 a.m. Saturday, Oct. 9, 2004, at his residence. Funeral services were held at 11 a.m. today at Evangeline Funeral Home Chapel, with burial in Rosehill Cemetery. He is survived by his wife of 64 years, Gladys Inman Hatch of New Iberia; two daughters, Sharon Ann Hatch Kinchen and husband, Bobby, of Vero Beach, Fla., and Sheila Kay Hatch Johns and husband, Harvey, of New Iberia; two brothers, Lynn Hatch of Big Bayou Black and Charles Hatch of Lancaster, Calif.; six sisters, Dorothy Barnett and Belle Parham of Colorado City, Texas, Mollie Cantrelle, Eva Lou Kelpsch and Shirley Poirrier of Houma and Kate Miller of Roswell, N.M.; four grandchildren, Jeffery Moneyhan, Tibra Parker, Jaimie Johns and Joel Johns; 10 great-grandchildren, Jaymie, Allison, Lauren and Logan Johns, Brandi, Bobby and Madison Moneyhan and Trey, Harrison and Hatch Parker; and one great-great- grandchild, McKayla. He was preceded in death by one son, David Thomas Hatch; his parents, Gitch and Ceidie Hebert Hatch; three brothers, Percy, Ira and Hugh Hatch; and one sister, Frances Ruth Hatch. He was raised in the Houma area and graduated from MacDonell School. He then began what would become a lifetime career in the sugar-cane processing industry, working for Southdown in Houma. He moved on to Fellsmere Sugar Co. in Fellsmere, Fla., and finally settled in Franklin working at Columbia Sugar Co-op until his retirement. He was a member of the Kindgom Hall of Jehovah's Witnesses, Central Congregation. He also had a passion for the outdoors, whether playing golf, exercising or tending to his garden. But his greatest love was his family, whom all of which will miss him dearly. Evangeline Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements.