Obituary of Bertha Lanier Batts ~ 1995

Source: Wilmington Morning Star Jul 12 1995

Chinquapin - Mrs. Bertha Lanier Batts, age 84, of 701 N.C. 111 South, 
Chinquapin, died Tuesday morning, July 11, 1995, at Duplin General 
Hospital in Kenansville.
Funeral services will be held at 2 p.m., Thursday, July 13, 1995, from the 
Bethel Presbyterian Church. 
Burial will follow in the Batts Family Cemetery at Chinquapin.
She is survived by two daughters, Mrs. Letitia Batts Beacham and husband, 
John, of Alexandria, Va., and Mrs. Beatrice Batts Amon and husband, John, 
of Goldsboro; two sons, Roger Lee Batts and wife, Jacque, of Woodbridge, 
Va., and Reynolds Batts of Savannah, Ga.; eleven grandchildren and ten 
great-grandchildren.
A native of Duplin County, Mrs. Batts was the daughter of the late James 
and Cordelia Casteen Lanier and was the widow of Willie Batts. She was an 
active member of Bethel Presbyterian Church and a life member of the 
Presbyterian Women. After farming with her husband for 41 years, at his 
death she began a new career. She worked as a house mother at Middlesex 
Freewill Baptist Church Children's Home for several years. Then she came 
home and worked as a companion sitter until 1988; after that she did what 
she enjoyed most, her church work, visiting the sick and her family.
Casketbearers will be Mrs. Batts' grandsons, David Amon, Michael Amon, 
Lee Batts, Jimmy Batts, Doug Beacham and Stephen Batts.
The family will receive at the Padgett Funeral Home from 7:30 to 9 p.m. 
Wednesday and will be at Mrs. Batts' residence, 701 N.C. 111 South, 
Chinquapin, other times.
For those so desiring, memorials may be made to Bethel Presbyterian 
Church, Route 1, Chinquapin, NC 28521.
A Padgett Service of Wallace.





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