Bertha A. Hightower, 107, of Poteau, Oklahoma, died Wednesday, February 12, 1997, in Poteau. She was a homemaker and a member of Trinity United Methodist Church in Albuquerque, New Mexico. The widow of William H. Hightower, Sr., she attended Mount Calvary Baptist Church.
She is survived by five daughters, Carnis Salisbury of Albuquerque, Mildred Smith of Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, Vivian Wiley of Los Angeles, California, Doris Montgomery of Poteau, and Bluitt Cornelia Taylor of Locust Grove, Virginia; two sons, William H. of Washington, D.C., Edward Bernard of Silver Springs, Maryland; eighteen grandchildren; three great- grandchildren.
