Mrs. Lattus,

Hickman, Dies;

Rites Wednesday

HICKMAN, Ky., May 3 -- Mrs. Geneva Lattus, 65, wife of Charles Lattus, prominent Fulton County farmer, died at 9:40 a.m. today at Obion County Hospital in Union City. She had been in failing health for several years.

Mrs. Lattus was the daughter of the late Joseph Seigle and Rose Carrico of Mayfield. She attended Mayfield High School and later was a student at Mount-St. Joseph Academy at Maple Mount, Ky. She married Lattus in 1934.

Mrs. Lattus was very active in the homemakers club, the Woman's Club and the Sacred Heart Altar Society.

Besides her husband, who is engaged in large planting and livestock interests, Mrs. Lattus leaves two daughters, Mrs. Ronald Strong, Hickman, and Mrs. James Liggett, Ithica, N.Y., a sister, Mrs. Jack Stahr, Hickman; and three grandchildren, all of Hickman.

Funeral services will be conducted at 10 a.m. Wednesday at Sacred Heart Catholic Church in Hickman by the Rev. Vincent Kaufman.

Friends will meet at Barrett Funeral Home at 8 p.m. Tuesday to recite the Rosary.

The Sun-Democrat

Paducah, Ky

Tuesday, May 4, 1971, p.2

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HICKMAN -- Mrs. Charles Lattus, 65, died Monday at Union City, Tenn. Her husband survives. Funeral, 10 a.m. Wednesday at Sacred Heart Catholic Church here. The body is at Barrett Funeral Home here.

The Courier-Journal

Louisville, Ky

Wednesday, May 5, 1971, p. A-13

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Mrs. Geneva Lattus Leaves Many

Good Works To Honor Her Memory

"The best portion of a good person's life is in the little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and love."

It was the English poet William Wordsworth who wrote these words many years ago. Yet, surely he could have had in mind a beloved and prominent Hickman resident who passed away quietly at the Obion County Hospital on Monday morning.

Geneva Lattus, a gentle lady reared in the tradition of an exemplary Christian home, where her Catholic faith was the core of her way of life, was an extremely rare individual who combined the love of her home and family with sincere devotion to her friends, to her church, and to the untold number of persons involved in the varied activities of life in which she was keenly interested.

She was a homemaker, and her tastefully decorated home is mute testimony of her good taste. She was a member of the Woman's Club and gave of her time and her energies in assisting that organization in its cultural pursuits.

But she will be remembered most of all perhaps, for her love and dedication to the church of her faith. In the Sacred Heart Church in Hickman a duty assigned to her was assurance that the duty would be performed not only with perfection, but with love.

She was an avid church-goer, but such attendance was not only a religious custom, but a joy, for today, in the far-flung corners of the United States there are members of the clergy and the religious orders who will always call her blessed. She remembered them not only on the days set aside for remembrances, but also on those nameless days when they needed the necessities for living and the comfort of a constant friend.

She excelled in so many things. She was the kind of a musician who played on occasions when those around her were storing their minds and their hearts for future memories. She played a little organ when the St. Edwards Church in Fulton was dedicated, and she was at the organ when there were periodic missions, or revivals in her own church in Hickman.

And she did so love to be on hand when new churches were built, or were dedicated for there is no doubt that she revelled in being there when a new edifice was established for perpetuating not so much her own faith but just faith in God.

Mrs. Lattus had been in failing health for several months. Within the past months she was confined frequently in the Obion County Hospital. Yet, when she was home, and with her family and friends there was never a scintilla of evidence that she was not her old self, giving of her friendship and her energies to those she loved. She died at the age of 65. She lived a full and meaningful life that will give those she loved many happy moments with which to remember her.

Mrs. Lattus was the daughter of the late Joseph Seigle and Rose Carrico of Mayfield. She attended Mayfield High School and later was a student at the Mount St. Joseph Academy at Maple Mount, Kentucky. She married Charles A. Lattus in 1934.

Besides her husband, who is engaged in large planting and livestock interests, Mrs. Lattus leaves two daughters, Mrs. Ronald Strong, Hickman, and Mrs. James Liggett, Ithaca, New York, a sister, Mrs. Jack Stahr, Hickman; and three grandchildren all of Hickman. A sister, Mrs. Bernard Cash of Mayfield, preceded her in death five years ago.

The funeral services were conducted at 10:00 Wednesday at the Sacred Heart Catholic Church in Hickman by the Rev. Vincent Kaufman. He was assisted by Rev. William Hagman, pastor of the church.

Burial was in the City Cemetery with the Barrett Funeral Home in charge of arrangements.

The Hickman Courier

Hickman, Ky

Thursday, May 6, 1971

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Carrico-Lattus Marriage

Solemnized Tuesday.

MAYFIELD, Ky., Oct 17 — (Special) At solemn high mass at St. Jerome's church at Fancy Farm on Tuesday, Miss Geneva Carrico, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Seigel Carrico, became the bride of Charles Lattus, of Hickman, Ky. The ceremony was performed by the Rev. J. H. Luckett in the presence of a large gathering. He was assisted by Father Spaulding and Barrett.

The altar of the church .was banked with ferns and roses interspersed with white tapers In candelabra. Lohengrin's "Brldal Chorus" was played while Misses Rose Stahr and Linda Cash, nieces of the brlde, strew rose petals along the bridal path to the altar. '

The bride's attendants were. Miss Ruth Helene Stahr, of Hickman, and Miss Isabel Cash, of Fancy Farm. The groom was attended by Joe Lattus as best man and Ernest Johnson as groomsman.

Out-of-town guests included Mr, and Mrs. Jack Stahr, Mr. and Mrs. John Lattus, Mrs. Katie McNelll, James Higan, Mr. and Mrs. Elvis Stahr, Mr. and Mrs. Ben Lattus, Mr. and Mrs. Jake Lattus, Mr. and Mrs. B. W. Posey, the Rev Spalding, and Judge Stembridge, all of Hickman; Mrs. A. Suhre, of Louisville; Mrs. J. E. Hazel, Mrs. Ped Dowdy, and Miss Evelyn Dowdy, of Paducah; the Rev. Barrett, and Mr. and Mrs. Wilford Kaufman, of St Johns.

The Paducah Sun-Democrat

Paducah, Ky

Wednesday, October 17, 1934, p. 6

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