At the same time, Tatterson was described as being possessed of “a rare wit” and was not above playing along with unusual requests, such as an odd freelance job she took for a year for which she wrote a column that appeared in a Texas newspaper in the guise of a New York society lady reporting on the gossip and happenings of the Big Apple. Though she was not in good health in the final years of her life, she did not fall seriously ill until the time of her death in January 1934. She was 81 years old.
