Bettye Jean Harper Compton

Bettye Jean Harper Compton

Funeral services for Bettye Compton will be held Saturday, October 8, 2016 at 3:00 p.m. at the chapel of Robert Barham Family Funeral Home, with Rev. John Branning officiating. Burial will be at Magnolia Cemetery with Robert Barham Family Funeral Home in charge of the arrangements.

Mrs. Compton, age 87, of Meridian, Mississippi passed away Thursday, October 6, 2016 at Bedford Personal Care Center, Marion, Mississippi.

Bettye graduated from Meridian High School, as well as Meridian Junior College, and attended Millsaps College. She married Bill Compton and soon began making a home and filling her days rearing four boys. She was a member of Central United Methodist Church, the Samuel Dale Chapter of the National Society Daughters of the American Revolution, First Families of Mississippi, Mississippi ForestryAssociation, theSpendthrifters Investment Club, the Pierian Literary Club, and the Northwood Bowling League. Next to loving, adoring and giving words of advice to her grandchildren, her love was genealogy, her computer, and co-managing the family tree farm. All of her grandchildren have been blessed to truly have known her and will be comforted by the "Grannie stories" that will be repeated for years to come at all Compton gatherings.

In recognition of her love for genealogy, and to assist future researchers of family lineage, the complete names of her survivors are included: her four sons and daughters-in-laws, William Bond Compton, Jr. (Ellen Cowan), Robert Hays Compton (Lynne Lewis), David Miller Compton (Debra Davis), and John Gibson Compton (Ann Apperson). Her nine grandchildren, through Billy, his children Catherine Cowan Compton Goodson (Josh), and William Webb Compton (Brooke White), through Robert, his children Kathryn Ann Compton Monsour (John Gregory), and Tyner Lex Compton Mikell (Jeremiah William), through David, his children David Matthew Compton (Emily Neal), and Elizabeth Shearer Compton Holloway (Brett), and through John, his children John Hays Compton (Carrie Ford), William Hewlett Compton (Sarah Spengler), and Caroline Dimmitt Compton. Bettye’s thirteen great-granchildren, through Catie, her son Hunter Goodson, through Webb, his son Sebastian Webb Compton, though Kathryn, her children Hays William Monsour, Anniston Lex Monsour, and Stelynn Rose Monsour, through Tyner, her daughter, Audrey Kathryn Mikell, through Matthew, his son David Prentiss Compton, through Elizabeth, her daughters Margot Shearer Holloway, Maddie Clark Holloway, and Miller Ruth Holloway, through John Hays, his daughter, Annie Schindler Compton, and through Will Hewlett, his children John Owen Compton, and Addie Hewlett Compton. She is also survived by her beloved first cousin, Mark Porter.

She was preceded in death by: her husband, William Bond Compton; and her parents, Joseph Hays Harper, and Blanche Miller Harper.

The family request memorials be made to: Meridian Community College Foundation, Blair Batson Children’s Hospital, or a charity of your choice.

Pallbearers will be her grandsons: Matthew Compton, John Hays Compton, Will Hewlett Compton, Webb Compton, Greg Monsour, Jeremiah Mikell, and Brett Holloway.

Family and Friends may sign the online guestbook at robertbarhamffh.com.

Visitation will be held at Robert Barham Family Funeral Home, from 1:00 to 3:00 p.m. on Saturday, October 8, 2016.