Jimetta Stevens Bettis, Memphian who died October 31, 1965.

 

MRS. JIMETTA BETTIS

 

Funeral Service Today for Longtime Resident

 

    Mrs. Jimetta Bettis of 7020 Highway 51 North, widow of Eugene Johnson

Bettis, died at 12:35 a.m. yesterday at Baptist Hospital after a year's illness.

She was 81.
 

    Services will be at 2:30 p.m. today at Memphis Funeral Home with burial

in Forest Hill Cemetery. 
 

    Mrs. Bettis was born in Nashville and lived in Memphis about 65 years.

She was a member of Decatur Street Christian Church.  She was active in

the Marine Corps Mothers Club during World War II and with the Travelers

Aid Society.
 

    She leaves a son, Warren G. Bettis of Frayser; two daughters, Mrs.

Arrabelle Sixsmith and Mrs. Jimetta Winter, both of Millington; a sister,

Mrs. T. G. Tucker of 805 Stonewall, five grandchildren and nine great-

grandchildren.