Betty Richardson Prentice

Mrs. Betty Ann Richardson Prentice, 81, resident of Spainwood Street, died Monday, January 16, 2012, at Maury Regional Medical Center. Funeral services will be conducted Wednesday at 11:00 a.m. Oakes & Nichols Funeral Home with Dalton Cole and Greg Gwin officiating. Burial will follow in Rose Hill Cemetery. The family will visit with friends Tuesday from 4 - 8:00 p.m. at the funeral home. Notes of sympathy may be sent to the family at www.oakesandnichols.com. The Maury County native was the daughter of the late Sam Garrett Richardson and Virginia Wilkes Richardson. On October 9, 1948 she married Robert Anderson "Bobby" Prentice who preceded her in death March 30, 1998. She was employed by South Central Bell for ten years during the late 1950's and early 1960's but spent most of her life as a wife, mother and homemaker. Mrs. Prentice was a member of Collegevue Church of Christ and a former longtime member of Lanton Church of Christ. Survivors include three sons, Robert Lee (Angela) Prentice, Donald Allen (Yvonne) Prentice, Robert Scott Prentice all of Columbia; a brother, Donald (Mildred) Richardson of Columbia; four grandchildren, Paula (Corey) Jacoby of Membane, North Carolina, Samuel Todd (Norma) Prentice of Houston, Texas, Savannah Prentice, Delana Prentice both of Columbia; and five great-grandchildren. Pallbearers will be Robert L. Prentice, Donald Prentice, Doug Richardson, Terry Boatright, Michael Thompson and Brian Thompson.