This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Ratliff, Patton Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/pAB.2ACI/5097 Message Board Post: January 2, 2004 Journal News, Hamilton, Ohio Bill Patton Bill Patton, age 51, of Hamilton, passed away at Mercy Hospital Fairfield on Wednesday, December 31, 2003, at 4:00 a.m. He was born at Lackey, [Floyd County], Kentucky, on July 31, 1952, the son of Clint and Gladys (Ratliff) Patton. A veteran of the U.S. Army, he was a former employee of Danny’s Poultry. He is survived by four brothers, Elmer Vernon Patton of Hamilton, Robert D. Patton of Fairfield, Clinton Patton of St. Petersburg, Florida and Otis Edward Patton of Charlestown, West Virginia; two sisters, Betty Dials of Walbash, Indiana and Deloris Conley of Artesia, New Mexico. He was preceded in death by his parents and a sister, Mary Ellen Bently. Funeral services will be held at Brown Dawson Funeral Home, 330 Pershing Avenue, on Monday, January 5, 2004, at 2:00 p.m. with Rev. Jacob Flannery of Franklin Street Baptist Church, officiating. Burial will follow in Greenwood Cemetery. Visitation will be held on Monday from 1:00 p.m. to 2:00 p.m. at the funeral home.