Catherine "Ms. Kitty" (Sample) Hargett, 77

GEORGETOWN - Catherine "Ms. Kitty" (Sample) Hargett of Georgetown died Thursday, Jan. 11, 2007, in her home. She was 77.

Ms. Hargett was born Jan. 1, 1930, in Virginia, daughter of the late Ervin Sample and Helen Savage.

She migrated to Delaware where she raised her family.

She retired after 27 years of working with Mountaire, Selbyville.

Ms. Hargett enjoyed socializing with her friends and neighbors.

In addition to her parents, she was preceded in death by two brothers, Paul Sample and Tom Sample; a sister, Elizabeth Jubilee; a daughter, Rose Sample; a son-in-law, Daryl Showell; and two grandsons, Christopher Ames and Deric Taylor.

She is survived by three sons and a daughter-in-law, Raymond Sr. and Gail Sample, Edward Ames and John Lee Hargett; six daughters and two sons-in-law, Mary Nelson, Doris Showell, Catherine Davis, Anna Ames, Louise and Linwood Clark and Yvonne and Watemon Morris; 28 grandchildren; and a host of great-grandchildren, great-great-grandchildren, nieces, nephews, cousins and friends.

Services will be 11 a.m. Friday in St. Johns 2nd Baptist Church Mt. Joy near Millsboro, where friends may call one hour earlier.

Arrangements by Watson Funeral Home, Millsboro.