Her obituary in the Charleston Gazette reported “BESSEMER CITY, N.C. - Hattie Richmond, 90, of Bessemer City, formerly of Beckley, W.Va., died March 2, 1999, in Charlotte Health Care Center after a short illness. She was a homemaker and a member of Hilltop Baptist Church, Green Valley.

Surviving: daughter, Sylvia Riddle Rennick of Bessemer City; stepdaughters, Geneva Riddle Smallwood of Fort Myers, Fla., Betty Richmond Suddreth of Lenoir; stepsons, Frank Richmond of Houston, Everece "Ace" Richmond of Galena, Ohio; sisters, Anna Mae Coakley of Havre De Grace, Md., Lena Henry of Sonora, Calif.; brothers, Roy Fagg of Oak Hill, W.Va., Cletis "Skeek" Fagg of Cunard, W.Va.; 23 grandchildren; 20 great-grandchildren; three great-great-grandchildren.

Service will be 3 p.m. Friday at Blue Ridge Funeral Home Chapel, Prosperity, W.Va., with the Rev. Leo Lambert officiating. Burial will be in Blue Ridge Memorial Gardens, Prosperity.”

The North Carolina deaths database lists Hattie Richmond, age 90, born 14 Mar 1908 in West Virginia, died 2 Mar 1999 in Charlotte, Mecklenburg, North Carolina, residence Gaston Co., North Carolina, widowed, burial out of state.