Mattie Lee Dalton

Mattie Lee Dalton age 98 of Harriman passed away on Monday, June 28, 2010 at Harriman Care and Rehabilitation Center. Mattie was a dedicated Christian and a member of Trenton Street Baptist Church since 1931. She accepted Christ as her Savior at age 12. By age 15 she was teaching a children’s Sunday School class. Later when she moved to Harriman and joined Trenton Street Baptist Church she taught in the Young People, Junior and Children’s Departments until she was 85. She is preceded in death by: her husband of 72 years Stanley Dalton, her parents James Blaine Lee and Texas Belle Heatherly Lee, sisters; Sue Powell, Bertha Sears, and Grace Lee, brothers; Horace, Bill, Jeff, and Jim Lee, half-brother John L. Lee, and half-sister Mary Thomas, daughter-in-law Wanda H. Dalton, and stepmother Della Lee. She is survived by son and daughter-in-law Jim and Gladys Dalton, daughter Martha Lee Dalton, grandson and wife Steve and Jenny Dalton, great-grandchildren Hunter and Haley Dalton, brother Millard Lee, sisters-in-law Mildred Braden and Emogene Dalton, half-sisters Laura Cox, Lucille Smith, Frankie Huddleston, Mabel Caton, half-brothers George and Ewell Lee. She also leaves a host of nieces and nephews whom she dearly loved. After graduation from Harriman High School in 1932, she attended Maryville College. In addition to being a loving wife, mother, grandmother and great-grandmother, she had been a Gray Lady at Harriman General Hospital, a member of Roane County Home Demonstration Club, a member of the Roane County Gideon’s Auxiliary, and a member of the Pellissippi Genealogy Society. She enjoyed doing crafts, and researching family history with her husband Stanley. The family will receive friends on Tuesday evening from 6 to 8 P.M. at Kyker Funeral Home in Harriman. The funeral service will be Wednesday at 2 P.M. at Trenton Street Baptist Church in Harriman with Rev. Gene Nelson, Rev. Mason Goodman and Ted Taylor officiating. The body will lie in state one hour prior to service time. Burial will be in Roane Memorial Gardens. In lieu of flowers, the family requests that donations be made to Trenton Street Baptist Church, 519 Trenton St., Harriman, TN 37748 or to the Gideon’s, Roane County Camp, P.O. Box 476, Kingston, TN 37763. Kyker Funeral Home of Harriman, TN is serving the family of Mattie Dalton.

Mattie Lee Dalton

February 9, 1912 - June 28, 2010