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 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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