Bluefield Daily Telegraph, Sunday 12/27/1987
Miss Garnett Mellrose Higginbotham, 75, of 203 Thorn Street, Princeton, died Saturday morning in a Princeton hospital.
Born in Princeton, she was the daughter of the late Thomas Jefferson and Macy Thorn Higginbotham.
She was a retired school teacher having taught at Matewan, Pembroke, Oakvale and Tazewell High Schools. She studied playwriting at the University of Virginia, the University of North Carolina and West Virginia University, and the Shuster Martin School of Drama at Cincinnati and the Pasadena Playhouse of Dramatic Art in Pasadena, Calif. She also attended Concord College in Athens.
She wrote the pageant for the Mercer County Bicentennial, the Rams Horn on 1976, and the pageant for Giles County, Call of the River—in 1968.
She was a member of the Kee Street United Methodist Church of Princeton and the Matthew French Chapter of the DAR, a member of the United Daughters of the Confederacy, the Order of the Eastern Star, the Mercer County Historical Society, the Beta Sigma Phi, the Alpha Delta Kappa, the White Shrine and the Woodman of the World.
She was preceded in death by one sister, Miss Ruby Nile Higginbotham and one brother, William Davis Higginbotham.
Survivors: brother, T. J. Higginbotham of Princeton; niece, Patricia Tolley of Princeton; nephew, Thomas Higginbotham of Princeton.
The funeral will be 2 pm Monday in the Burns Wornal Chapel of the Memorial Funeral Directory on the Athens Road in Princeton with the Rev. Joseph Shreve officiating. Burial will be in Roselawn Memorial Gardens in Princeton.
Friends may call at the funeral home from 6 to 9 pm today.
Miss Garnett Mellrose Higginbotham, 75, of 203 Thorn Street, Princeton, died Saturday morning in a Princeton hospital.
Born in Princeton, she was the daughter of the late Thomas Jefferson and Macy Thorn Higginbotham.
She was a retired school teacher having taught at Matewan, Pembroke, Oakvale and Tazewell High Schools. She studied playwriting at the University of Virginia, the University of North Carolina and West Virginia University, and the Shuster Martin School of Drama at Cincinnati and the Pasadena Playhouse of Dramatic Art in Pasadena, Calif. She also attended Concord College in Athens.
She wrote the pageant for the Mercer County Bicentennial, the Rams Horn on 1976, and the pageant for Giles County, Call of the River—in 1968.
She was a member of the Kee Street United Methodist Church of Princeton and the Matthew French Chapter of the DAR, a member of the United Daughters of the Confederacy, the Order of the Eastern Star, the Mercer County Historical Society, the Beta Sigma Phi, the Alpha Delta Kappa, the White Shrine and the Woodman of the World.
She was preceded in death by one sister, Miss Ruby Nile Higginbotham and one brother, William Davis Higginbotham.
Survivors: brother, T. J. Higginbotham of Princeton; niece, Patricia Tolley of Princeton; nephew, Thomas Higginbotham of Princeton.
The funeral will be 2 pm Monday in the Burns Wornal Chapel of the Memorial Funeral Directory on the Athens Road in Princeton with the Rev. Joseph Shreve officiating. Burial will be in Roselawn Memorial Gardens in Princeton.
Friends may call at the funeral home from 6 to 9 pm today.
Bluefield Daily Telegraph, Sunday 12/27/1987
Miss Garnett Mellrose Higginbotham, 75, of 203 Thorn Street, Princeton, died Saturday morning in a Princeton hospital.
Born in Princeton, she was the daughter of the late Thomas Jefferson and Macy Thorn Higginbotham.
She was a retired school teacher having taught at Matewan, Pembroke, Oakvale and Tazewell High Schools. She studied playwriting at the University of Virginia, the University of North Carolina and West Virginia University, and the Shuster Martin School of Drama at Cincinnati and the Pasadena Playhouse of Dramatic Art in Pasadena, Calif. She also attended Concord College in Athens.
She wrote the pageant for the Mercer County Bicentennial, the Rams Horn on 1976, and the pageant for Giles County, Call of the River—in 1968.
She was a member of the Kee Street United Methodist Church of Princeton and the Matthew French Chapter of the DAR, a member of the United Daughters of the Confederacy, the Order of the Eastern Star, the Mercer County Historical Society, the Beta Sigma Phi, the Alpha Delta Kappa, the White Shrine and the Woodman of the World.
She was preceded in death by one sister, Miss Ruby Nile Higginbotham and one brother, William Davis Higginbotham.
Survivors: brother, T. J. Higginbotham of Princeton; niece, Patricia Tolley of Princeton; nephew, Thomas Higginbotham of Princeton.
The funeral will be 2 pm Monday in the Burns Wornal Chapel of the Memorial Funeral Directory on the Athens Road in Princeton with the Rev. Joseph Shreve officiating. Burial will be in Roselawn Memorial Gardens in Princeton.
Friends may call at the funeral home from 6 to 9 pm today.
Miss Garnett Mellrose Higginbotham, 75, of 203 Thorn Street, Princeton, died Saturday morning in a Princeton hospital.
Born in Princeton, she was the daughter of the late Thomas Jefferson and Macy Thorn Higginbotham.
She was a retired school teacher having taught at Matewan, Pembroke, Oakvale and Tazewell High Schools. She studied playwriting at the University of Virginia, the University of North Carolina and West Virginia University, and the Shuster Martin School of Drama at Cincinnati and the Pasadena Playhouse of Dramatic Art in Pasadena, Calif. She also attended Concord College in Athens.
She wrote the pageant for the Mercer County Bicentennial, the Rams Horn on 1976, and the pageant for Giles County, Call of the River—in 1968.
She was a member of the Kee Street United Methodist Church of Princeton and the Matthew French Chapter of the DAR, a member of the United Daughters of the Confederacy, the Order of the Eastern Star, the Mercer County Historical Society, the Beta Sigma Phi, the Alpha Delta Kappa, the White Shrine and the Woodman of the World.
She was preceded in death by one sister, Miss Ruby Nile Higginbotham and one brother, William Davis Higginbotham.
Survivors: brother, T. J. Higginbotham of Princeton; niece, Patricia Tolley of Princeton; nephew, Thomas Higginbotham of Princeton.
The funeral will be 2 pm Monday in the Burns Wornal Chapel of the Memorial Funeral Directory on the Athens Road in Princeton with the Rev. Joseph Shreve officiating. Burial will be in Roselawn Memorial Gardens in Princeton.
Friends may call at the funeral home from 6 to 9 pm today.
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