Bettie Henly James “Betsy” Simmons, 90, died at home on Tuesday, Nov. 14, 2023.
Born July 9, 1933, to W. Rodney and Bettie Woodward James, she lived in Mobjack until her father died when she was 7. At that time, she and her mother moved back to the family farm, Walboro, in Saluda. Betsy graduated from Saluda High School in 1951, and attended the College of William and Mary, where she was a member of Kappa Alpha Theta sorority and graduated with majors in Mathematics and Chemistry. While in college, she worked at Langley Air Force Base.
In 1956, she married Peter Montague Simmons, and they lived in several states before settling in Newport News in 1962 and then returning to Walboro in 1973.
