Betty Jean Herring

Betty Jean Herring (Pegram) died peacefully on October 21, 2021 in Boulder, CO. She was born on June 6, 1932 to R.B. and Lula Pegram in High Point, NC. She attended High Point Central High School, graduating in 1949. She then graduated from Woman’s College of Greensboro, NC (now University of North Carolina at Greensboro, NC) in 1953 with a BS in Analytical chemistry. She took a position at the School of US Public Health Services, Chapel Hill, NC and in Chapel Hill met her husband of 62 years, Jackson Rea Herring. Her next employment was as a chemist at the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, MD. After starting a family, Betty devoted much of her time to raising her children and working for good in the community through the Quakers. Betty was also a keen gardener and found great joy each spring in the rebirth of the natural world.

She was preceded in death by her three sister Margie, Dorothy and Elizabeth. She is survived her husband Jack; two sons Peter Rea Herring of Peterborough, UK and Christopher Jackson Herring of West Chester, PA; and two grandchildren Christine Herring of San Francisco, CA and Natasha May Herring of Bishops Stortford, UK. Betty was a Birthright Quaker and contributed throughout her life to Quaker causes. She was a member of the Boulder Friends Meeting since 1973, where she held various positions, and before that at Adelphi Friends Meeting, MD and then Friends Meeting at Riverside Church of NYC, and originally Friends Meeting, High Point, NC.

A Memorial Service will be held at Boulder Friends Meeting when it is safe to do so. She will be greatly missed.

A donation in Betty’s memory may be sent to the Multiple Myeloma Research Foundation.

Fond memories and expressions of sympathy may be shared at www.cristmortuary.com for the Herring family.