Naomi Laffoon Trathen
MADISONVILLE, Ky. — Naomi
Laffoon Trathen, 98, of Madisonville
died at 4:05 a.m. Saturday, April 4, 2009,
at NHC Healthcare in Madisonville.

She was born October 10, 1910,
in Daniel Boone, Ky. to the late Sam
Franklin and Elsie Laffoon Frankliln. She
retired from Kentucky State Tuberculosis
Hospital where she was employed for more than 20 years as a
supervisor of the laundry department. She enjoyed singing and
playing the fiddle. She was a member of First Church of God in
Madisonville.

In addition to her parents, she was preceded in death by her
first husband and children's father, Lloyd H. Smith; her second
husband, Edwin J. Trathen; one daughter, Elsie Smith Gordon;
five sisters, Jo Phaup, Thelma Brandt, Ellen Ward, Ruby Park,
June Lavelle; and three brothers, Woodrow Franklin, Foch
Franklin, and Almon Franklin.

She is survived by a son and daughter-in-law, Basil Lloyd
Smith and Alice Smith of Madisonville with whom she lived
since Nov. 1955 when a storm destroyed her home; a daughter
and son-in-law, Georgia Smith Dockins and Rick Dockins of
Hanson, Ky.; a son-in-law, Robert Gordon; two sisters, Florence Guge of Madisonville,
Mattie Rodgers of Green Bay, Wisc.; six grandchildren, Bridgett
Brennan, Angela Miller, Teresa Clark, Mike Gordon, Tracey
Teo, and Wendy Bowden; one step-grandson, Steven Curtright;
eleven great-grandchildren; and several nieces and nephews.

Funeral services will be at 11 a.m. Tuesday, April 7, 2009,
in the chapel at Harris Funeral Home in Madisonville with
Rev. John Shoulta officiating. Burial will be in Forest Lawn
Memorial Gardens in Madisonville.

Pallbearers will be Steve Brennan, Benny Pryor, Bob
Gordon, David Clark, Tyler Clark, and Richard Dockins.

Friends may call from 4 to 7 p.m. Monday and from
9 a.m. until service time Tuesday at Harris Funeral Home