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Naomi Wooten Huggins of Batesville will turn 100 on Thursday, Aug. 18. KELSIE MAYES/Submitted
Naomi Wooten Huggins will celebrate her 100th birthday on Thursday.
Huggins was born and raised in Batesville, where she currently lives. She has a love for the outdoors and calls herself a “tomboy that never grew up.”
She was born on Aug. 18, 1922, and she is a descendant of the Wooten and Free families of Batesville. Her parents were Julia Free Wooten and Horace Wooten.
She attended Providence School and loved to play basketball. She also enjoyed buck dancing and square dancing back in the day.
Huggins lived in a boxcar at one of the Morse Brothers Lumber Company’s logging camps as a small child because her dad and uncle worked for the company.
Great-granddaughter Kelsie Mayes said “she has instilled a hard work ethic in her children, grandchildren, and great-grandchildren.”
Her husband Wade Huggins (passed in 2000) fought in World War II as a tailgunner in the European Theater. They later met at North Georgia Technical College,
Huggins has three sons – Horace, Stephen and the late John Huggins (passed in 2014). She has seven grandchildren, 10 great-grandchildren, and three great-great grandchildren with another on the way. All of her grandchildren call her NaNa (pronounced Nay-Nay).
“She loves God and loves seeing all of his beautiful creations in nature,” Mayes said.
Huggins also was a longtime Eastern Star member and she is a member of Providence Baptist Church.
– Staff reports