Subject: Laxton.Gladiolus.Litton.2002.Boyle.OBIT



Gladiolus Litton Laxton March 17 2002 
Boyle County KyArchives Obituaries

Danville Advocate Messenger, 19 Mar 2002
Services for Gladiolus Litton Laxton, 97, of Madison Avenue will be 1 p.m. 
Thursday at Stith Funeral Home by the Revs. Tim McKenzie and J.R. Johnson. 
Burial will be in Danville Memorial Gardens.

She died Sunday at her home.

Born Feb. 5, 1905, in Scott County, Tenn., she was the daughter of the late 
Horace and Abagail Chambers Litton. She was a homemaker and had been an 
operator for South Central Bell. 

She was a former president and lifetime member of the Women's Missionary 
Society at First Church of God where she also was a Sunday school teacher for 
50 years. She served chaplain for the Retired Railway and Veterans Club. She 
was a poet and songwriter and had been awarded an Editors Choice Award for 
Outstanding Achievement in Poetry by the National Library of Poetry. She was 
the widow of W.D. Laxton.

Survivors include two daughters, Nancy Mable Pike of Danville and Olive M. 
Cohron of Ocala, Fla.; a brother, Horace Litton of Danville; a sister, Edna 
Newby of Danville; five grandchildren; 20 great-grandchildren; and 18 great-
great-grandchildren. She was preceded in death by two grandchildren.

Pallbearers will be Kelly Cohran, Geoffrey Holtzclaw, Bob Newby, Horace 
Huffman, Wendell Spigle, William Lay and Charles Yankey.

Visitation will be after 5 p.m. Wednesday.

Memorials may go to First Church of God.



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