Atkinson County GaArchives Obituaries.....Harper, Elizabeth "Betsy"  Merritt December 23, 1948
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The Ocilla Star - December 30, 1948
The Ocilla Star: December 30, 1948
 Services held for Mrs. Betsy M. Harper Friday Morning.
 Funeral services for Mrs. Betsy Merritt Harper, 79, who died early Thursday 
morning, December 23, 1948, at the home of her daughter, Mrs. J. T. Lee in 
Ocilla, were held at the Lax Baptist Church Friday morning, December 24, with 
the Rev. D. H. Barwick, pastor and the Rev. Virgil Vickers of Willacoochee, 
officiating.
 Burial was in the Paulk Cemetery near Lax.
 Mrs. Harper, the former Miss Betsy Merritt, was born in Coffee County was the 
widow of the late Amos Harper.
 Pallbearers were Orman Purvis, Jack Allen, John Wingate, Edison Lee and 
Melvin Lee.
 Honorary pallbearers were Y. G. Harper, Albert Kirkland, J. M. Paulk, Richard 
Lee, Arthur Harper and W. G. Harden.
 Survivors include four daughters, Mrs. T. M. Purvis, Atlanta, Mrs. Frank 
Allen, Fitzgerald, Mrs. W. L. Wingate, Willacoochee, Mrs. Jim Lee, Ocilla; two 
sons, W. A. Harper and J. O. Harper, both of Ocilla and one brother, Henry 
Merritt of Willacoochee.

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