Funeral services will be held Thursday, February 26, 6 p.m. at Truth Tabernacle, 214 Hosking Avenue, with internment at 10 a.m. Friday at the Arvin Cemetery. Trudie Mae Latham (Elliott) passed away Monday in Bakersfield with her family at her side. Reverend Ruben Martinez will officiate. Our mother was born August 2, 1932, in Broken Bow, Oklahoma to Joseph and Maude Elliott. She had two brothers and five sisters. On Oct. 31, 1949, she married Lonnie (Jack) Latham. Our parents enjoyed close to 53 years of happiness together, and had five sons and one daughter. Mother attended Tehachapi Lighthouse. She loved God and her family. Possessed of an amazing green thumb, she always enjoyed growing beautiful plants and flowers. She worked as a nurse's aide at Memorial Hospital for several years before poor health forced her retirement. Everyone who knew her will remember her great sense of humor and vivid blue eyes. She was preceded in death by both parents; her husband, Jack; an infant daughter, Trudie Viola; a son, Jerry; a sister, Betty Paden, and two brothers, Boge Elliott and David Elliott. She is survived by four sons, Joe and Rosemary of Centennial, Colorado, Lonnie and Cindy of Tehachapi, Johnny & Delia of Okmulgee, Oklahoma, and Denver and Becky of Bakersfield, and daughter-in-law Tomasa Latham of Casa Grande, Arizona; four sisters, Ruth & Arnold Coleman of Casa Grande, Arizona, Bonnie and Wayne Risenhoover of Williams, Arizona, Mary Jo and L.C. McFerrin of Buckeye, Arizona, and Maudie and Wynn Black of Tallahassee, Florida; 12 grandchildren, 21 great grandchildren; and many, many friends and family who loved her. The family wishes to extend special thanks to her caregiver, Sally Moreno, and her husband George, for the extraordinary love they showed our mother, and for always going the extra mile.