Lucille Ledbetter Hastings

Almon Lucille Ledbetter Hastings died Tuesday, December 12, 2017 at Panola Medical Center. Mrs. Hastings was born March 4, 1920 in Wayne County TN to the late James Clester and Mary Alice Lay Ledbetter. She married James Lafayette "Fate" Hastings on October 18, 1937. Visitation will be from 5:30 to 8:00 p.m. on Friday December 15, 2017 at Wells Funeral Home with funeral service Saturday morning at 10:00 a.m. in the Martin Willingham Memorial Chapel of Wells Funeral Home. Interment will follow at Forrest Memorial Park for immediate family.  Lucille was a charter member of Enon Baptist Church, a member of the Daughters of the American Revolution and United Daughters of the Confederacy. As an avid genealogist, Mrs. Hastings travelled extensively across the United States doing genealogical research before there was the internet and ancestory.com. After being a farmers wife for the first part of her married life, she began working at the Batesville Hosiery Mill and retired after working there for 16 years. She then worked as a receptionist for Dr. P.E. O'Leary's dental practice for 16 years. Her health started declining after a stroke in 2004. She lived at home until going into the Sardis Nursing Home in August of 2016.Mrs. Hastings was preceded in death by her parents, her husband and one daughter, Lillian Sue Hastings Reed and one son, James Walker Hastings; three brothers, Clester Fay Ledbetter, Jamie Ray Ledbetter, and Bobby Allen Ledbetter, one sister; Marie Ledbetter Muse and one grandson; James Stacy Hastings.  She is survived by two children; Myrtle Lucille Hastings Guinn (Larry) and William Mark Hastings of Batesville, seven grandchildren; Denise Hastings Mosier, James Tracey Hastings of Houston, TX, William Z. Reed, IV (Diane) of San Antonio, TX, Lori Susanne Reed Woods of Batesville, Laurie Lucille Guinn Huff (Christopher) of Norman, OK, and Judith Jeanine Hastings of Washington DC, nine great grandchildren; Amber Cavasas of Brennen, TX, Jesse Cavasas of Hempstead, TX, Nathaniel Renauld Hastings of Montgomery, TX, Kenzi Reed of Valdosta, GA, Colby Woods of Nashville, TN, Fayte Nicolas Reed, Gauge Hasten Reed, William Z. "Quint" Reed V., all of San Antonio, TX, six great great grandchildren, one sister; Maxine White of Wynne AR, and numerous nieces and nephews.