Mrs. Elizabeth Hale Roach

“Betsy”, 66, was born at Emory Hospital and passed there suddenly of AML leukemia. But in between, she lived an exceedingly full life of meaning and service, laughter and love.

Betsy grew up in DeKalb County, the daughter of Helen and Jack Hale, and attended Lakeside High School, University of Georgia, and University of Tennessee, where she graduated. She joined Delta Airlines as a flight attendant in 1973 and traveled the globe. Betsy met, fell in love with, and married Al (“The World’s Luckiest Man”) in 1977. In 1983, their much loved son Kevin was born. Retiring from Delta in 2003, she taught in Cobb County Schools’ homeless education program.

No one who met Betsy could forget her, and everyone could count on her friendship and graciousness. Everywhere she lived, worked, or devotedly volunteered, Betsy made friends… high school, college, her dear Tri Delta sorority, Delta Airlines, Fox Hollow neighborhood, Mt. Bethel UMC-Marietta, and Hickory Knoll UMC-Franklin, NC, where Al and Betsy had a mountain home.

Heaven has gained a beautiful and radiant, smiling and tireless servant. Her family here will forever love and miss her immensely: husband Al; son Kevin and his wife Joy; sister Susann and her husband Doug; Joy’s parents Jan and John and her brother Jon; Al’s sister Karen and her husband Larry; Al’s son Alan; Al’s daughter Natalie, her husband Andy, and their children Andrew, Alden, Avery, and Alaina.

Betsy was involved in numerous interests, including athletic pursuits, and philanthropic organizations. She was forever striving to better herself and the lives of others. Betsy would smilingly approve of donations made in her memory to an organization that she supported in her life: CURE Childhood Cancer, 117 Perimeter Center West, Suite N-402, Atlanta GA 30338, curechildhoodcancer.org.

A memorial service and reception to celebrate the outstanding life of Elizabeth Hale Roach will be Saturday, May 6, 2017 at 1pm at the chapel of Roswell Funeral Home, 950 Mansell Rd., Roswell GA 30076. A private family graveside service will follow.

Let it be known that someone who lived quiet greatness, in glad and humble service of man and God, has left us to be with her Lord and Savior forever.