Mrs. Hattie Pearl Head

April 5, 1937 - October 24, 2019

****NOTE: Visitation and Service Times Locations are listed below*** Mother Hattie Pearl Head departed this eternal life suddenly on Thursday, October 24, 2019. She was born April 5, 1937 to the late George Willie Lipsey, Sr. and Mary Jane Beatty Lipsey in Houston, Mississippi. She accepted Christ at an early age at Weslyen Chapel. Ms. Hattie graduated from Houston High School in 1955. In 1957, she was united in marriage to Robert Head and to this union five children were born: Patricia, Robbie, Robert, Margaret and Samantha. With the support of her brother, she arrived in Kalamazoo, MI from Mississippi in 1967. She pursued several careers after relocating to Kalamazoo, which include: Holly’s Restaurant, Shakespeare Company and National Water Lift where she was referred to as a trailblazer because she was the first African American supervisor. She retired after many years of outstanding service. In 1990, she united with the Galilee Baptist Church where she served faithfully until her passing under the pastorate of Dr. J. Louis Felton and Dr. Michael T. Scott. She was very fond of both of these great pastors and loved them as if they were her sons. She had many interests, but her true passions were playing bingo, baking delicious cakes and watching all sports. If you went to her house on Sunday, you knew you would be watching sports. In addition to her parents and husband, she was preceded in death by her brothers, Willie, George, Thomas, James, Joel and Charles and her sister, Detra Carol Smith. Surviving her are her five beautiful children, Patricia Head, Robbie (Silas) Goma, Robert (Frances) Head, Margaret Head and Samantha Head; her two brothers, Frank and Andrew Lipsey; her four sisters, Odelia (Steve) Johnson, Mary Lipsey, Linda Chavez, and Brenda Lipsey; 14 loving grandchildren, Titus, Damany, Amanda, Merik, Jovaughan, Brandon, Nigel, Tory, Quintin, Rashanda, Dionne, Tonyelle and twins, Taurel and Aurel; twenty great-grandchildren; special son, Jerome Buchanan; special friends, her cousin/sister, Modean Reeves, Evelyn Chambers, Mamie Burnett, Eldora Williams, Mary Randall, Cassie and a host of other relatives and friends.