Obit of Ratliff, Olivia Eagles; WINN PARISH, LOUISIANA
Submitted by: Edith Ratliff of San Diego California
Source: Originally printed in The Olympian, Olympia, Washington
Date: 12 Jan 2004
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Obituary

Alice Olivia Eagles Ratliff
September 7, 1917 - April 27, 2003

Olivia Eagles Ratliff, accomplished genealogist, horticulturist, and book reviewer, has passed away at 85. 

Mrs. Ratliff was born in 1917 in Winnfield, Louisiana, the first child of Harry C. Eagles and Olive O. Shelton Eagles. An avid reader, Olivia was valedictorian of the Winnfield High School graduating class of 1933 and won a scholarship to Louisiana State University. 
Inspired by then LSU professor Robert Penn Warren, she majored in English; and after graduation, she taught in Quitman, LA and Dodson, LA before her marriage to F. Cooper Ratliff of Bogalusa Louisiana. 

During their residence in Louisiana, Mrs. Ratliff became an avid genealogist. The Ratliffs also became accomplished horticulturists, sharing their expertise in Amaryllis cultivation and serving as judges for the American Camellia Society. Mrs. Ratliff recently gave her extensive library of books on camellias to the society.


The couple made their home in Camas, Washington between 1961 and 1980, and retired at Panorama City Retirement Community in Lacey, Washington in 1981. Mrs. Ratliff continued to write and was frequently called to provide book reviews for the Panorama City Book Club. Her memoirs of her pioneering North Louisiana family, "Roots, Trunk, Branching, and Blossoms," were published in 1997. She was also active in the First Baptist Church of Olympia, the Seattle Children’s Hospital Guild, PEO educational sisterhood, The American Rose Association, and the Daughters of the American Revolution.

Mrs. Ratliff is survived by her brother, James Rowland Eagles of Chapel Hill North Carolina; son, Dr. Fleet C. Ratliff of Olympia Washington; daughters Edith Ratliff of San Diego, California and Olive Ann Ratliff Byrd of Annandale Virginia; seven grandchildren; and one great-grandchild.

The family suggests memorials be sent to the Chapter Y Scholarship Fund, c/o PEO, 7318 Huckleberry NW, Olympia, WA  98502