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- The Florida Times-Union (Jacksonville, FL)
July 28, 2011
Betty Arlen McIntyre Currier, 78, died peacefully at home in Saint Marys, Georgia on July 21, 2011 after a two and one half year struggle with terminal cancers.
She was born in Hamlet, North Carolina on July 10, 1933 to Bernard Leach McIntyre and Grace Louise Norton McIntyre and raised in Ellerbe, North Carolina and Portsmouth, Virginia.
She was a clerical worker for a number of years with an insurance firm in Norfolk, Virginia and years later worked with Century 21 Tri-City Realty in Saint Marys, Georgia.
She married Richard Andrews Currier in Norfolk, Virginia in 1958 and became a Navy Wife. During the first twenty-six years of their marriage, she organized and supervised, often in the absence of her husband, nineteen family moves to nine different states, including Idaho and Hawaii. She was active in Navy Wives Clubs and helped to establish and organize the clubs for the wives whose husbands served on the USS Scorpion, USS John Adams, USS Sea Devil and Naval Submarine Base, Kings Bay, Georgia. She was a great homemaker, whose interests and hobbies included a passion for cooking, crossword puzzles and traveling with her husband to all fifty United States. She was an accomplished seamstress who wore many of the garments she sewed. Gift wrapping was extra special to her and her skilled ribbon creations were known to her family as Betty Bows ! She was interested in community activities and led a successful Camden County American Cancer Society fundraising campaign in 1979/80. She is preceded in death by her father Bernard and her sister Dorothy Louise McIntyre Baier.
Survivors include her mother Grace, currently residing at Senior Care Center - Saint Marys, husband Richard and children Christopher Andrews Currier and Catherine Leigh Currier.
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1933 - 2011 (78 years)
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