A One-Name Study for the BARNUM/BARNHAM Surname
From the Express News, San Antonio, Texas, November 9, 2007: Hattie Louise (Barnum) Armstrong, a retired Registered Nurse, passed away on November 5th, 2007 after a brief illness. She was born Hattie Barnum on August 1st, 1925, in Rowlesburg, West Virginia. Hattie was the valedictorian of her high school class at Flemington High School. Several years later, in nurse's training in New York during VJ Day, she was one of the many people in the crowd at Times Square on that day of celebration. After becoming a RN in 1947, Hattie began working in New York at the Methodist Hospital in Brooklyn, and then the Brunswick Hospital in Amityville. When her brother moved to San Antonio in 1955, she and her parents, Harry and Montie, followed him to San Antonio where they became long time residents of Magnolia Street and long time attendees of Trinity Baptist Church. Hattie went to work shortly after her arrival in San Antonio at the Nix Hospital, where she worked for about 28 years before retiring. She married Robert Armstrong in 1983 and gained a whole instant family in the Armstrong clan. Unfortunately, Bob passed away too soon in 1990, and Hattie moved back to West French Place for 10 years before moving into the Chandler Residence in early 2001. Hattie worked hard to make every day pleasant for the Chandler employees and other residents. Her caring smile of friendship will be missed by all of her friends there. Hattie is survived by her loving family including her brother George and his wife Gladys Barnum, of Desert Hot Springs, California, their daughters: Gayle and her husband, Terry Huntling, of Indio, California; Annette and her husband, George Koetje, of Rincon, Georgia; and Carmen Gonzales, of Sanford, Florida; plus six great-nieces and one great-nephew, and six great-great-nephews and a great-great niece. She is also survived by her stepson, Dr. James Armstrong, his wife Fay, their sons Robert, Bill (his wife Gail), and Marshall (his wife Cameron) and their families including Hattie's six step-great-grandchildren.
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