Betty Lou Humphries

She met and married her husband, Ralph Thomas Horn in Tallassee then moved to Montgomery, Alabama where she raised her family. Betty became an x-ray technician and worked for a group of orthopedic surgeons. They were her home away from home for over 30 years. She loved everyone in that office, the doctors, her coworkers… especially her patients. She loved the medical profession, literally talking about it on the day she passed away, in the emergency room of Brookwood Baptist Medical Center. She was talking to these precious medical professionals about what a blessing it was to be able to help people and how wonderful they were and that she loved them. She meant it. She was the sweetest, most compassionate, most beautiful (inside and out), and most hilarious Southern lady.

After Betty’s husband of 37 years passed, she got remarried to a handsome gentleman in her Sunday school class, Billy (Bill) Eugene Humphries. They married in 1995. They enjoyed retirement together, buying a lake house that all their family and friends enjoyed. They spent many hours listening to music, watching old TV shows and talking.

Finally, Betty’s most favorite hobby, requiring no special skill, just gas in the car and money (green or plastic) in her purse, was shopping. Clothes/jewelry. Clothes always on sale, jewelry usually costume. She loved buying it! She loved wearing it! She was just a charmer.

Betty Humphries was predeceased by her first husband, Ralph Thomas Horn, her daughter, Pamela (Pat) Toole, and her siblings, Dorothy (Jim) Hayes, Frances (Charles) Hathcock, and Raymond (Billie Ruth) Smith.

She leaves behind her husband of 29 years, Billy (Bill) E. Humphries; her children, Myra Roberts and Melanie DeRamus; her step-children, Cindy Posey, William (Rattana) Humphries, Warren (Shannon) Humphries, and Steve (Tottie) Humphries; her grandchildren, Zachary (Whitney) Clifton and Anna Rose Roberts; her step grandchildren, Austin Posey, Michael Humphries, Daniel Humphries, Joseph Humphries, Amanda (Jeremy) Peavy, and Lauren (Dakota) Brown; her great-grandchildren, Edward James Clifton and Oliver Jude Clifton.

A visitation for Betty will be held Saturday, March 23, 2024 from 10:00 AM to 11:00 AM at Leak Memory Chapel, 945 Lincoln Road, Montgomery, AL 36109, followed by a funeral service from 11:00 AM to 12:00 PM. Services will conclude with a graveside at Elam Baptist Church, 4686 Notasulga Rd., Tallassee, AL 36078.