Mrs. Hilda Polston Flatt age 74 of the Difficult Community was discovered deceased by her daughter at the Flatt family’s Kemp Hollow Road farm home. She was pronounced deceased at 7 a.m. Thursday morning June 27, 2024 at the Highpoint-Health Riverview Emergency Room.
Mrs., Flatt is at the Hackett Chapel of Sanderson Funeral Home where her funeral services are scheduled to be conducted on Monday morning July 1st with Bro. Zary Shealy officiating. Following the 11 a.m. services burial will be beside her husband, Wallace, in the Gazebo garden at the Defeated Creek Memorial Gardens.
The Flatt family will be receiving friends at the Hackett Chapel of Sanderson Funeral Home on Sunday afternoon from 2 p.m. until 6 p.m. Sunday evening and again on Monday from 9 a.m. until the 11 a.m. services.
She was one of seven children, four daughters and three sons and was the third child born to the late Johnnie Othell Polston who died in 1983 at the age of 62 and Martha Emma Brummitt Polston who died in 2001 at the age of 73.
All three of her brothers preceded her in death, Terry Polston who died at the age of 57 on October 22, 2009, Othell Junior Polston who died at the age of 68 on December 11, 2014and Gene Wilson Polston who died at the age of 72 on August 4, 2020.
Mrs. Flatt attended Macon County High School in Lafayette.
She was united in marriage to Difficult Community native, Wallace Lee Flatt, who just died, also of an apparent heart attack at the age of 77, on February 25, 2024 following almost fifty three years of marriage. They marriage was solemnized by Eld. Phocian Gibbs at his Cookeville Highway home.
Now a homemaker and longtime adult sitter, she had in years past been employed at the former Welsh Company in Gordonsville and at the former Texas Boot plant in Carthage.
Mrs. Flatt was saved at the age of 11 and was baptized into the full fellowship of the Meadorville Missionary Baptist Church at Lafayette.
Surviving is her daughter, Tina Flatt Williams and husband Kyle of the Difficult Community; a son, former Smith County Deputy sheriff, Garrett Flatt and wife Angie Warrick Flatt of Lafayette; grandson, Dakota Flatt and wife Kaitlyn Tiller Flatt also of Lafayette; great-granddaughter, Emelia Grace Flatt; three sisters, Rosemary Polston Russell and husband Rick of Lafayette, Jan Harper and Brenda Lee Polston both of Gallatin.
The Flatt family has requested memorials to great-granddaughter, the Emmy Flatt Education Fund.
