Dessie Marie Hartman

Funeral service for Dessie Marie Hartman will be 2 p.m. Sunday, March 6, 2011 in the chapel of Blanchard St. Denis Funeral Home. Interment will follow at Calvary Baptist Church Cemetery in Natchitoches, LA. The family will receive friends from 12 noon until service time on Sunday, March 6, 2011 at Blanchard St. Denis Funeral Home. Mrs. Hartman, 86 years of age, passed away Friday, March 4, 2011 in Winnfield, LA. She was born February 19, 1925 to the late Arthur J. Anderson and the late Margaret Duvall Anderson in Scotland, Arkansas. She was also preceded in death by her first husband, Raymond Haralson; and second husband, Carl Hartman; children, Freda Toedtman, Bonnie Call and Bob Haralson; siblings, William Anderson, Tommy Anderson, Pearl Anderson, Lucille Branham, Bessie McKowen and Mildred Means. Those left to cherish her memory include her children, Lela Outlaw and her husband Bobby, Jerry Haralson, Lucy Thrasher and her husband Dwayne and Leon Haralson. She was blessed with 17 grandchildren, 28 great grandchildren and 1 great-great grandchild. Her grandsons are honored to serve as pallbearers and they include Barry Outlaw, Bob Outlaw, Jr., Josh Haralson, Brad Thrasher, Jake Haralson and Jay Thrasher. She was a loving mother and grandmother who deeply cared for her family. She served as a Pink Lady at the Natchitoches Parish Hospital for many years. She will be dearly missed but never forgotten by her family and friends. The family would like to extend gratitude toward Autumn Leaves Nursing and Rehabilitation in Winnfield, LA for the care and compassion they extended to Dessie during her later years.