Johan Batson Mott

© Marietta Monitor

25 July 2003, pg 4

Submitted by: Martha N. Reddout

Graveside services for Johan Batson Mott, 77, of Tulsa, were held at 11 a.m., Saturday, July 19, in Lakeview Cemetery, Marietta, with the Rev. Rick Mills officiating.

Mrs. Mott was born May 23, 1926, in Marietta, the daughter of John Steele and Louise Milor Batson. She died Wednesday, July 16, 2003, in St. Francis Hospital, Tulsa.

A resident of Marietta most of her life, Mrs. Mott had made her home in Dallas and Tulsa the last few years. She and Robert Webber Mott were married in Marietta in 1946, and he preceded her in death on February 27, 1977. Mrs. Mott attended Hockaday School in Dallas and received a bachelor's degree and a master's degree from Southeastern State University in Durant. She worked as an educator in the Marietta Public School system and a counselor for the Oklahoma Department of Public Welfare. Mrs. Mott was also a member of the Mahota Memorial Presbyterian Church in Marietta.

Survivors include a son, Robert W. Mott, Jr. of Danville, California; a daughter, Marcia Mott MacLeod of Tulsa; and two sisters, Miriam Cameron of Marietta and Louise Beazley of Midland, Texas.

Mrs. Mott was also preceded in death by her parents.

Services were under the direction of Flanagan-Watts Funeral Home, Marietta.