Alberta Earle Hanson Lafferty 85 of Glasgow died Friday June 22, 2012 in Glasgow, KY.  Born in Edmonson County in what is now the Mammoth Cave National Park she was the daughter of the late Arthur Earl Hanson and Ethel Elizabeth Cutliff Hanson.  She was a member of the Glasgow Baptist Church and was a graduate of Hiseville High School.  She attended Bowling Green Business University prior to working at Reynolds Metals in Louisville, KY.  Upon her return to Barren County she was a loving caregiver to her father and later retired from the National Park Concessions at Mammoth Cave National Park.

Survivors include a daughter Denise “Denny” Riddle (Larry) of Glasgow; a granddaughter Emily Riddle Brown (Trevor) of Summer Shade; a grandson Bradley Riddle (special friend Tiffany Davis) of Glasgow; a great grandson Hudson Brown; a sister Doretha Bensenhaver (Charles) of Louisville; a sister-in-law Laverne McGuire Hanson of Hattiesburg, MS; several much loved cousins, nieces and nephews also survive.  In addition to her parents she was preceded in death by two sisters Frances Hanson and Angie Hanson Gibbons, four brothers Olin, Dick, Leon and Charles Lewis Hanson and a nephew Lemuel Olin Hanson.

Funeral services will be 11:00am Tuesday, June26, 2012 at the A. F. Crow & Son Funeral Home with burial in the Locust Grove Cemetery.  Visitation will be after 3:00pm Monday at the funeral home.