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Oct. 14, 1924 – May 1, 2015

NATCHEZ — Services for Martha Belle Huffman Monte, 90, of Natchez, who died Friday, May 1, 2015, at the Meadville Convalescent Home, will be at 2 p.m. today at Laird Funeral Home Chapel with the Rev. James Hunsucker and the Rev. Lonnie Case officiating.

Burial will follow at the Greenlawn Memorial Park Cemetery under the direction of Laird Funeral Home.

Visitation will be at 1 p.m. until service time today at the funeral home.

Mrs. Monte was born on Oct. 14, 1924, in Natchez, the daughter of Charles Shaw Huffman and Martha Elizabeth Kittling Huffman.

Her hobbies were crocheting and sewing. She taught her four girls to crochet, some caught on and some didn’t.

Mrs. Monte made all of her girls clothes and taught them to sew with flour sacks. She loved to fish at the ponds and caught a big bass and had it mounted. She even named it Fred.

Mrs. Monte loved her horse, Elinor, for a very long time. However, when her health declined, they had to sell her.

She was preceded in death by her parents; her husband, Otello Charles Monte; three brothers, Charles, Bill and John Huffman; one grandson, Charles “Chip” Lloyd Lofton; and two sons-in-law, Harvey “Did” Prather Jr. and Buddy Risinger.

Survivors include four daughters, Martha “Dump” Allbritton and husband, Bob, of Brookhaven, Carrie “Tensey” Boyte and husband, John, of Natchez, Mildred “Weese” Prather of Meadville and Mary Risinger of Carthage, Texas; nine grandchildren, Michael Springs, Stephanie Wilson, Don Boyte, Melissa Martin, Elizabeth Wells, Lynn Burlison, Stacey Allbritton, Jolene Poole and Darlene Roberts; 35 great-great grandchildren; four great-great-great- grandchildren; and one sister, Mary Katherine Ogle of Shreveport, La.

Pallbearers will be Lynn Burlison, Don Boyte, Billy Martin Jr., Monte Martin, Wyatt Martin and Michael Springs.

Honorary pallbearer will be Hunter Boyte.

In lieu of flowers, memorials may be made to a charity of choice.

Online condolences may be sent to the family at lairdfh.com.