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of three decades she became a well
known member of the campus com
munity who was subject to myth and
speculation — a factor magnified by
her mental illness. He has been work
ing for the last month to find a new
place for Hatoon to stay within the
neighborhood but had been unable to
locate her relatives or children.
“A lot of it is just not able to have
been confirmed enough to where
I would feel comfortable saying ‘this
is truth, this is the reality of it,’”
he said. “Everybody thinks they
know something.”
Professor emeritus of English Ed
win L. Coleman said he had been
friends with Hatoon for 30 years.
“Hatoon was quite a character. She
had her moments of brilliance, even
though she would sometimes get off
into her own world.”
When Coleman first met her she
was not living on the street, but he
could not say when she took resi
dence on the streets of the University
neighborhood.
“I just talked to her yesterday; she
was asking about my son,” Coleman
said, adding that he retired three
years ago but is often on campus. “I
always asked her about her daughter.
That was really a source of pain (for
her) because she had lost contact,
not because of distance, but because
of their poor relationship. ”
Coleman said Hatoon told him
that her daughter had married and
moved to Seattle.
“I’m going to miss her; I really
will. She’s sort of an icon,” he said
of Hatoon.
Ellis echoed Coleman’s sentiments.
“Hatoon was what everybody
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trouble, never got herself arrested
and was a good addition to the neigh
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Rogers also noted that Hatoon was
a positive presence to those who
lived and worked around her.
“She would always compliment me
on how I looked, and she would com
pliment a lot of people on how they
looked. She loved little kids, and she
would always go up to them and kind
of coo and make funny little talks with
them,” she said. “She was just a part
of our lives every day. I will miss her a
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just let her be there and just sort of
accepted her.”
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