Hattie Lee Roberts Morris

HATTIE LEE ROBERTS MORRIS was born in Albany, GA November 3, 1937 to Willie C. Roberts and Luella Fowler Roberts. At an early age, the family relocated to Indianapolis, IN where Hattie attended and excelled at IPS School #4. The faculty and PTA at IPS School #4 noticed Hattie's academic talent and followed her career through college.

HATTIE left Attucks High School in 1954 after her junior year. Due to her educational excellence, she was awarded a Ford Foundation Scholarship to attend historically black college and university, Fisk University in Nashville, TN. While a student at Fisk University Hattie rewrote the scholastic record books, majored in mathematics, and minored in physics and chemistry along with learning to converse in both Latin and French. She graduated magna cum laude receiving the departmental Stage Crafters Honors in mathematics. Hattie also received formal congratulations in Indianapolis, IN from the Turning Leaves Book club, Gaillard Unit 107 of the American Legion Auxiliary, the Attucks faculty, and Dr. and Mrs. Russell A. Lane.

Upon graduation, Hattie continued her education by taking classes at both Syracuse University and Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. While at the Institute Hattie studied Nuclear Engineering which was very progressive for an African American woman at that time. Hattie then worked for General Electric in Albany, NY before relocating back to Indianapolis, IN where she worked for Indianapolis Public Schools as a Programmer/Analyst until her retirement in 2000.

In 2009 Hattie was blessed again when God intervened in her life to deliver her from her illness and two separate hospice facilities. It was at that time that she relocated to Trotwood, OH. While in Ohio she made several good friends though her caregivers, neighbors, and those that cared for her.

HATTIE departed this life on Friday, January 5, 2018 at the age of 80. She was preceded in death by her father, Willie C. Roberts; mother, Luella Fowler Roberts; first cousin once removed, Dora Oldham; brother, Louis Roberts; sister, Sylvia Dandridge. She leaves to cherish her memory daughters, Cecelia and Trizah Morris; her grandsons Antonio Thomas, Deontae Morris, Ontorio Morris, and Lorenzo Morris, her granddaughter Keontae Morris; sister, Anna Roberts; half-sister, Marthine Cummings; nieces, Stacy and Lisa Dandridge, Janet Roberts Magwood, Donna Roberts Wiseman; nephew, Louis Carl Roberts; and a host of extended Fowler, Roberts, and Morris relatives; and friends in both Indianapolis, IN and Dayton, OH.