Eleanor Carolyn Hattaway

Eleanor Carolyn Hattaway, a resident of Mobile, Alabama for 46 years, passed away April 25, 2005 at Knollwood Hospital at the age of 73.

Eleanor was born in Troy, Alabama August 20, 1931. She was a graduate of Troy High School where she was in the Beta club. She was also a graduate of Troy State University and Birmingham Southern in Birmingham, Alabama. She came to the New Mobile Infirmary where she did eighteen months internship in the Medical School of Technology. Upon completion she took the National Registry test by the National Office in Muncie, Indiana. She was one of the upper ten passing the registry. Eleanor was hired by the Mobile Infirmary after passing the national test. She worked in chemistry where she helped start the school of medical technology for the Infirmary teaching students in Medical Technology until the University of South Alabama started a school for Medical Technology. She retired from the infirmary eight years ago after forty five years in the Medical Technology field.

She was an active member of the Dauphin Way Baptist Church where she was a member of the Pauline Armstead Sunday School class. She also played on the Spirits Softball Team for many years.

She is survived by her mother, Ruth Hattaway, of the home, brother, Bobby Hattaway (Glendora) of Troy; sister, Elaine McAnally (Kello) of Belmont, Mississippi; two nieces, Carolyn (Craig) Roberts and Jennifer Hattaway of Troy; nephew, Mark (Donna) McAnally of Oxford, Mississippi; three great-nephews, Jeffrey and Stephen Roberts of Mobile and Jake McAnally of Oxford and two great-nieces, Lauren and Carlee McAnally of Oxford.

She was preceded in death by her father, Carl Hattaway.

The funeral will be at Radney Funeral Home on Gretlot Road in Mobile, Thursday, April 28, 2005 at 11 a.m. Rev. Bill Whitfield will officiate. The family will receive friends at the funeral home at 10 a.m. before the service. The burial and memorial service will take place at Green Hills Memorial Garden Cemetery at 4 p.m. Thursday, April 28, 2005, with Rev. Bobby Bundy officiating.

Pallbearers will be Craig, Jeffrey and Stephen Roberts, Mark McNally, Robert Dennis and Clint Humphrey's.

Honorary pallbearers will be members of the Spirits Softball Team.

In lieu of flowers memorials may be made to the Bus Fund of the Dauphin Way Baptist Church.