Betty Keene Wall
August 18, 1927 - June 21, 2013
Columbus, GA- Betty Keene Wall, 85, passed away on June 21, 2013. Funeral services will be held at First Baptist Church at 11:00 AM on Monday, June 24, 2013, with Dr. James C. Elder, Jr. officiating. Interment will follow in Parkhill Cemetery. The family will receive friends Sunday, June 23, at Striffler-Hamby Mortuary, 4071 Macon Rd., Columbus, from 3:00 - 5:00 PM.
Betty was born August 18, 1927, in Columbus, GA to the late Jack Gay Keene and Susie Speight Keene. She was a faithful member of First Baptist Church in Columbus all of her life. Betty was a graduate of Columbus High School and graduated from the Women's College of Georgia, in Valdosta in 1948. Betty joined her husband, Bill, in the ownership and operation of Dinglewood Pharmacy. She taught math at Baker High School and Eddy Middle School for ten years. Betty will be remembered as a wonderful wife and loving mother. She was preceded in death by her son, Jack Keene Wall and her sister, Anne Keene Moore.
Betty is survived by her husband of 65 years, Charles W. Wall, Jr. of Columbus, GA; and her children, Gay Wall Martin and husband, Roger of Columbus, GA, Charles W. Wall, III and wife, Susanne of Carrollton, GA, Richard Lee Wall of Columbus, GA, Jon Blanchard Wall and wife, Mitzi of Havre de Grace, MD, and Jeannie Wall of Jupiter, FL; seven grandchildren, Andrew Keene Ledford, Jon William Wall and wife, Jennifer, Samuel Adam Wall, Jonathan William Wall, Emma Kathryn Wall, Paige M. Sprinkle and Ashlee Steen Myhres; a brother-in-law, John G. Moore; and many nieces and nephews.
In lieu of flowers, memorial donations may be made to the Alzheimer's Association of Georgia.
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