Bill Hatchett was born December 6, 1934 and entered into eternity June 12, 2021 at the age of 86. Services will be held at Palmer-Marler Funeral Home Saturday, June 19, 2021 at 2:00 PM and burial at Flynn Cemetery. Bill was born at Tulsa Morningstar Hospital but was from Olive, Oklahoma, where he grew up and attended school. His parents were Junior Daily and Clara Lucille (Spencer) Hatchett. His family came to Oklahoma in the original land run and most were farmers. Bill and his young parents were dropped off in California by his maternal grandfather during the depths of the Great Depression. His mother soon died in child birth, along with the child, and Bill’s father hitch hiked back to Oklahoma with his one-year-old son. Bill was then raised by his great uncle and aunt on a share-crop farm. After school Bill joined the navy and served two tours as a radioman aboard numerous ships during the Korean War and was stationed on all three U.S. coasts, as well as many overseas locations. While home on leave, he met and later married Donna June Solomon on December 24, 1953, and raised four children. Bill loved everything outdoor having grown up on a farm, to especially include hunting, fishing and sports. He was an accomplished fast pitch softball pitcher and played for many company teams, including Phillips and Conoco oil. He also coached numerous little league and American Legion baseball teams and football including those his boys were involved with. The highlight for much of the family was when they moved to Alaska in the early 1970’s and experienced so much that the state had to off er. After discharge from the Navy Bill obtained his education in computer science in the early days of mainframe computing and worked for Phillips and Conoco oil companies and later managed several large regional data processing centers to include National Trailer Convoy, National Bank of Tulsa and Alaska Data Systems. In later years he worked in sales. Bill came to Christ in midlife, but is certainly with his Lord and Savior now and wishes that you too get to know Jesus Christ as your personal Savior before it is too late. Bill was preceded in death by a daughter Catherine Celeste Hatchett and is survived by four children Billy Maurice Hatchett, Jr and wife Susan of Fulshear, TX; Michael Brett Hatchett and wife Debra of Edmond, OK; Yvette Suzanne Cates and husband Randy of Winfield, KS; and Valerie Lynn Hatchett Davis and husband Gerald Davis of Drumright, OK, and 13 grandchildren, 39 great-grandchildren and two great-great-grandchildren. Bill had a younger half-brother and sister, Roger Hatchett, of Stillwater, OK, deceased, and Judy Wilcox of Wichita, KS.
