Mrs. Betty Jane Davenport Derrick, age 78, of Buchanan passed away Tuesday, December 14, 2004. Mrs. Derrick was born in Haralson County on May 14, 1926. She was the daughter of the late Mr. Albert Herschel Davenport and the late Mrs. Addie Elaine Watson Davenport. Mrs. Derrick was a retired registered nurse. Besides her parents, she was preceded in death by her husband, Lonnie S. Derrick.
Surivors include one daughter, Jane Thornton of Marietta; five sisters, Melva Davenport of Buchanan, Ann Riggs of Bremen, Evelyn Smith of Bremen, Fay Adams of Lyons, and Frances Dowdy of Bremen; two brothers, Lewis Davenport of Buchanan, and Charles Davenport of Bowdon; and a number of other relatives.
Funeral services will be conducted Friday, December 17, 2004 at 11:00 A.M. from Hutcheson’s Memorial Chapel with Dr. Terrell McBrayer and Rev. Wesley Forrister officiating. Interment will follow in the Buchanan Cemetery.
Hutcheson’s Memorial Chapel of Buchanan is in charge of the arrangements.
