Obituaries
 By  Staff Reports Published 
4:22 pm Friday, January 4, 2013

Betty Jo DeVaney Williams

Betty Jo DeVaney Williams

January 2, 2013

Betty Jo DeVaney Williams, 79, Spruce Pine, passed away Wednesday, Jan. 2, 2013, at her residence.

Our sweet granny lived her entire life in Franklin County and was a member of Rockwood Baptist Church. She was a retired dispatcher from the Russellville Police Department.

Funeral services were Friday, Jan. 4, 2013, at Pinkard Funeral Home, Russellville, with Kris Green officiating. Burial was in Shady Grove Cemetery at Phil Campbell.

Survivors include daughters, Donna Keeton and husband, Joe, Russellville, Lisa Wolf and husband, Robert, St. Joseph, Mich.; grandchildren, Kathryn Keeton Nix and husband, Ryan, Daniel Joe Keeton, Sara Elizabeth Wolf; several nieces and nephews.

Honorary pallbearers will be Russellville Police Department.

She was preceded in death by parents, Archie Tab and Silda McMurry, and four brothers.

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