Community Curation

Hattie Campbell Jiggetts
Hattie Campbell Jiggetts

Hattie Campbell Jiggetts

Kristan Kenney

Hattie, born in 1918 to parents Hattie Paschall and George Campbell in Nutbush, North Carolina. Mom of 4 (Edward Allen, Samuel, Floyd and Danny) and worked as a domestic in Quogue, NY.  Right before she passed in 1972 she inspired her son Danny to choose Harvard University over a Big 10 football scholarship and told her son that “education can never be taken away from you.” Danny went on to graduate from Harvard and enjoy both a successful football career and a life after football as a sportscaster.