LETHA HAMILTON

CAPE GIRARDEAU -- Memorial service for Mrs. Letha Hamilton of Lenoir Retirement Community in Columbia was held Saturday in the Lenoir Chapel. Burial was in Hillcrest Cemetery at Fulton. Parker Funeral Home of Columbia was in charge of arrangements.

Mrs. Hamilton, 94 years old, died Wednesday, Dec. 5, 1990, at the University of Missouri Hospital in Columbia.

She was born Sept. 16, 1896, in Callaway County, daughter of Charles Edward and Martha Williams Carr. She married W. Jackson Hamilton Aug. 19, 1925, at Fulton. He died in 1974.

Mrs. Hamilton graduated from William Woods College, and taught school at Fulton before her marriage. The Hamiltons moved to Cape in 1931. Her husband was on the faculty at Southeast Missouri State University and later was named chairman of the history department. He retired in 1962 and they moved to Fulton.

Mrs. Hamilton was an active member at First Baptist Church here, Daughters of the American Revolution and Daughters of the American Colonists. She moved to Columbia in 1985.

Survivors include a daughter, Nancy Brady of Indian Hills, Cuba, Mo.; three grandchildren, Shannon Black of Manchester, David Brady of San Diego, Calif., Karen Hankins of O'Fallon, and three great-grandchildren.

She was preceded in death by a brother.