Bettye Sue Harris

February 5, 1929 - August 19, 2011

Bettye Sue Harris, age 82, a resident of Columbia, Tennessee passed away on Friday, August 19, 2011 at NHC Hillview in Columbia.


Funeral Services for Ms Harris will be held on Monday, August 22, 2011 at 11 A.M. in the chapel of Heritage Funeral Home with Coleen Baker Hargrove, Rev. Joe Bowers and Rev. Steve Swango officiating. Interment will follow in the Santa Fe Cemetery. The family will visit with friends on Sunday, August 21, 2011 from 5:00 P.M. until 8:00 P.M. and then again on Monday from 10:00 A.M. until the service hour. Heritage Funeral Home is assisting the family and in charge of the arrangements.

A native of Dallas, Texas, she was the daughter of the late Luther Hubert Harris and the late Beulah Blanche (Pigg) Harris. After growing up in the Water Valley Community, she was a 1947 graduate from Santa Fe High School and she then went on to further her education at Draughon’s Business School. She was a member of the Methodist Church. She worked and retired as an underwriter for National Life Insurance Company in Nashville. Ms Harris truly loved and enjoyed life and her family. Her hard working attitude and dedication enabled her to succeed in everything she did. She had a passion for writing poetry and some of her inspirational poems were published in a couple of books of poetry. In her later years, she enjoyed playing Bingo. As her family recalled Bettye’s life, it was evident that her joy and love had captured their hearts. Her loving and caring ways will truly be missed.

Ms Harris left behind to cherish her memory several siblings: Virginia Ellen (Bill) Reed of Nashville, TN, Henry Bratton (Helen) Harris of Santa Fe, TN, Jo Ann Harris (Charles) Biggs of Columbia, TN, Jessie Marie Harris (Jim) Peters of Elgin, IL, Freeman Monroe (Reba) Harris of Union City, TN, and Linda Regene Harris (Larry) Venable of Columbia, TN; and several nieces and nephews.

In addition to her parents, she was preceded in death by two brothers: Luther “Buddy” Hubert Harris, Jr. and Robert “Bob” Jackson Harris.

Her nephews will serve as pallbearers.

Honorary pallbearers will be the nurses and staff of NHC Hillview and Caris Hospice to whom the family would like to express their sincere gratitude for the loving care rendered to Ms Harris.

The family requests donations be made to the Santa Fe Cemetery, c/o Norman Harris, Sowell Hollow Road, Columbia, TN.

You may send private or public condolences to the Harris family at the Heritage Funeral Home website; www.heritage-fhcs.com Click on “Send Private Condolences,” or “Sign Guest Book”.