Katherine Gillum Hobbs

Mrs. Annie Katherine Gillum Hobbs, 95, former longtime resident of Hemingway Drive, died Monday, April 30, 2012 at Sterling House of Columbia. Funeral services will be conducted Wednesday at 11:00 a.m. at Oakes & Nichols with David Morris and Curtis Dowdy officiating. Burial will follow in Polk Memorial Gardens. The family will visit with friends Wednesday from 9:30 - 11:00 a.m. at the funeral home. Memorials may be made to Highland Church of Christ, 497 E. James Campbell Blvd., Columbia, TN 38401 or Pet Pals of Maury County, P.O. Box 1623, Columbia, TN 38402. Notes of sympathy may be sent to the family at www.oakesandnichols.com. She was born February 11, 1917 in Decatur, Alabama to Annie Lee Fox Gillum and Audie Virgil Gillum. She attended elementary school in Decatur. After graduating from Culleoka High School in 1934 she attended Columbia Business College. She worked in the Federal Government Office of Farm and Home Administration in Raleigh, North Carolina and Montgomery, Alabama. She met, fell in love with and married J.V. Hobbs from Campbell Station. They married on November 25, 1942. The couple settled in Maury County where she worked for the government as a civil servant at the Maury County Selective Service Office registering men for war for over thirty years. Men to this day still remember her as "sending them to war" but she said she just helped them get registered. She did not draft them but was always quick to give them encouraging thoughts before sending them on their way. Katherine was a member and past president of Professional Women's Club and a member of National Retired Federal Employees. After retiring from Civil Service, she volunteered with the Maury Regional Hospital Auxiliary for thirty years where she was always known to brighten a patient's day. Her hobbies over the years have included working in her yard and taking pride in her flower garden. She also enjoyed several mission trips with her church family and served as a Sunday School Teacher for her church, Highland Church of Christ, where she had worshiped for "more years than she cared to count." One of her fondest memories in life was traveling extensively throughout Europe, but when asked, one of the highlights of her life was visiting the Holy Land. Katherine and her husband always had pets to complete their family and Katherine, to her dying day, had a spoiled rotten Chihuahua, JAKL, who currently resides with a dear friend but made appearances quite regularly to visit his "mama", always dressed to the nines and acting as though he owned the place. Survivors include two cousins, Billy Hobbs and Bobby Hobbs and her close friend and neighbor, Ann Reddick, whom she referred to as her adopted daughter. Active pallbearers include Elders and Deacons of Highland Church of Christ and Landon Rummage. Honorary pallbearers include employees of Sterling House and members of Maury Regional Medical Center Auxiliary.