The Virginian-Pilot
                             THE VIRGINIAN-PILOT 
              Copyright (c) 1996, Landmark Communications, Inc.

DATE: Sunday, July 21, 1996                 TAG: 9607210007
SECTION: LOCAL                   PAGE: B6   EDITION: FINAL 
DATELINE: CHESAPEAKE                        LENGTH:   23 lines

BETSY L. SIMPSON

Betsy Lee Simpson, 82, of the 2300 block of Ferndale Road, departed this life Friday July 19, 1996, in Julia's Home For Adults.

She was a native of Marshville, N.C., and the daughter of the late Baxter Griffin and Lina Carpenter Griffin. She was a member of Fairview Heights Baptist Church. She was a homemaker, loving wife, mother and grandmother.

Survivors include her husband, Keith C. Simpson; a daughter, Lina and her husband, Joe Higginbotham of Chesapeake; a son, Joe and his wife, Elaine Simpson of Chesapeake; a brother, Arthur Griffin of Oakboro, N.C.; five grandchildren, Jessica Simpson, Courtney Simpson, Chad, Brad and Joe Higginbotham.

The funeral will be conducted at 3 p.m. Monday by Dr. Ted Barton in Sturtevant Funeral Home, Portsmouth Blvd. Chapel. Entombment will be in Greenlawn Memorial Gardens. The family will receive friends at the funeral home today from 3 to 5 p.m. and at other times at the residence. She will forever be in our hearts.

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