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    Text Obituary - Hattie Tackett: Funeral services for Hattie Tackett, 75, of Bean Station, Tenn., will be held at 1 p.m. Thursday at Everidge Funeral Home. Burial will be in Green Acres Cemetery at Ermine, KY. Born in Letcher Co, KY, she was a daughter of the late Henry and Martha Hall Quillen. She died June 30, 2008 at Holston Valley Hospital in Kingsport, Tenn. She was married to the late Carl Bentley and after his death married Donald Tackett, who survives her. She was the mother of the late Gary Bentley and Donald Tackett, and a sister of the late Joe Quillen, Daniel Quillen, Monroe Quillen, Delmer Quillen, Betty Jean Quillen, Netta Quillen, Maggie Hughes, and Nanye Fields. Surviving in addition to her husband are three sons, Darrell Bentley, Pippa Passes, KY; Dennis Bentley, Letcher, KY; and Gary Tackett, North Carolina; three daughters, Cheryl Burke, Myra, KY; Karen Wagner and Sherry Stenk, both of Midland, Mich.; and three sisters, Danola Potter, Clemmons, N.C.; Nellean Bentley, Neon, KY; and Hedy Anne Potter, Cleveland, Ohio. Posted in the Mountain Eagle Newspaper, Whitesburg, Letcher Co, KY, June 25, 2008 
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