Funeral services for Betty Ann Phillips Livingston of Henderson will be 3 p.m. Sunday, Nov. 6, at Cave Springs Baptist Church with Bro. Ronnie Geary and Amy Brown Moore officiating. Burial will follow in Cave Springs Cemetery. The family will receive friends at Cave Springs Baptist Church from 1-3 p.m. service time Sunday.
She was born Dec. 7, 1930 in Chester County in the Phillips School Community, the eighth child of 10 born to George Brantley Phillips and Lana Gertrude Thomas Phillips.
She graduated eighth grade from Phillips School and the 12th grade from Chester County High School in May 1947 then moved to Memphis to attend Miss Wylie’s Office Training School.
Upon leaving Miss Wylie’s School, she moved to Indianapolis, Ind., where she went to work as a Secretary for Aetna Casualty & Surety Company, working for the Aetna Companies approximately three years in Indianapolis and in Memphis.
After returning to Memphis, she met and married Robert Iley Livingston on Aug. 19, 1950, and during their 47 years of marriage, they lived in Shelby, Madison and Chester Counties.
They had five children, Robert, Jr., Linda Carol (Brown), James Philip, George Everett and Kathy Ann (Johnsey).
She was a stay-at-home mom until her children were in school; she was a Legal Secretary for 35 years, and after the death of her husband in 1997, she worked part-time for the Chester County Independent for approximately six years before retiring.
She was a long time member of the Cave Springs Missionary Baptist Church where she was known as “Miss Betty” to her fellow members. Her grandchildren and great-grandchildren lovingly called her ‘Grandma’!
She is survived by two sons, Robert, Jr., and James (Madonna); two daughters, Linda (Steven) Brown and Kathy Johnsey; and a large group of grandchildren and great-grandchildren.
She was preceded in death by her parents; her husband; one son in 1977, George Everett; four brothers, Tony Jahu, Joe Lee (“Bill”), George B., Jr. and David William; five sisters, twins Georgia P. Rush and Gertrude P. Ross, Ora Mae Kernodle, Mamie E. Tatum and Martha E. Clendenin.
