Hazel Hightower Mullen

Posted by on Dec 9, 2005

Hazel Hightower Mullen of Ingram Avenue, Campbellsville, daughter of the late Ellis Raymond Hightower and Mamie Alice Case Hightower, was born in Todd County, Kentucky, June 29, 1921. She died at 1:00 P.M., Sunday, December 4, 2005, in Campbellsville. Age: 84 She professed faith in Christ and was a member of the Lowell Avenue Baptist Church. She retired from Fruit of the Loom in Campbellsville in 1986 and has since that time taught over one hundred children in childcare. She united in marriage to Rev. J. V. Mullen Jr. November 4, 1939. Besides her husband, Rev. J. V. Mullen Jr. of Campbellsville, she is survived by three daughters and their husbands: Vivian Mullen Banks and Leonard of Stanford, Kentucky, Nancy Mullen Brockman and Donald of Campbellsville, and Peggy Mullen Boulware and Charlie of Plant City, Florida; four grandchildren: Lynnette Banks Torres and Debbie Banks Gibson of Stanford, Kentucky, John King of Verona, Kentucky, and Bill Shoemaker of Campbellsville; eight great-grandchildren; two brothers and two sisters: David Hightower of Elkton, Kentucky, James Ed Hightower of Russellville, Kentucky, Florine Siemaska of Springfield, Tennessee, and Helen Morine Falting of Waynetown, Indiana; several nieces and nephews and many other relatives and friends. She was also preceded in death by four brothers and one sister: Callie Hightower, Clyde Hightower, Elijah B. Hightower, Waymon Hightower, and Imogene Hightower.FUNERAL SERVICES: 11:00 A.M., Friday, December 9th, at the Parrott Ramsey Funeral Home in Campbellsville byRev. Dave Walters and Rev. Eugene Smith BURIAL:Green River Memorial Baptist Church Cemetery PALLBEARERS: Sawyer Flinchum, Steve Flinchum, Forster Hedgespeth, Lilburn Hedgespeth, John King, Bill Shoemaker HONORARY PALLBEARERS: Leonard Banks, Donald Brockman, Charlie Boulware, Steve Gibson, Floyd Hash, Mike Hovious, Brandon McClure