Kathleen Bentley Tackett of Blaze Branch, Dorton, is a seamstress and a quilter. The daughter of Joe Bentley of Myra and the late Fronie Bentley, Tackett grew up at Dorton and attended Dorton Elementary and high school. She returned to Pike County and until 1980, made all of the uniforms for the Virgie High School Band (then under direction of Helen Colley) and altered cheerleading uniforms for Pikeville, Jenkins, Dorton and Virgie high schools. Kathleen has been married to Phil Tackett, a retired trucker, for 32 years. A knee replacement four years ago gave Kathleen the incentive she needed to take up quilting . Kathleen belongs to the Pike County Quilt Guild that meets at the Pike County Extension Office and won a prize in the guild’s Hillbilly Quilt Show, in the Miscellaneous category. read more

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