Betty Joy Tendall Smith

A friendly woman who never met a stranger, Betty Joy was quick to throw out a joke or a pun all the way up to the end. She passed peacefully in her sleep on January 28, 2025, just two days shy of her 93rd birthday.

She was predeceased in 2009 by her beloved husband, Ernest, a meteorologist whose job moved the family across the country to the Southeast, and in 1990 by her daughter, Diana, a computer programmer who passed far too young.

Betty Joy is survived by her daughter, Janis, her son, Steve, and her grandchildren: Daniel and Bernadette.

Betty Joy will be laid to rest alongside her husband and daughter at Madison Memorial Cemetery, 420 West Central Avenue, in Madison, GA, at 2:00 PM, on Saturday, February 8, 2025.

Bernstein Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements.