Thomas C. Strickland & Sons Funeral Homes - West Chatham Chapel
phone 748-2444/fax 748-4112

Mrs. Betsy A. "Bets" Garner

Pooler-Mrs. Betsy A. "Bets" Garner, 52, passed away on Friday, February 11, 2011 at St.
Joseph's Hospital.

Bets was born in Wilson, NC and had lived in Pooler for 23 years. She was a founding
member of Morningstar Community Church and retired after 17 years as the Human
Resource Director at the Coastal Georgia Y.M.C.A. She was preceded in death by her
father, Charlie Tom Parker and her brother, Morrison "Mo" Parker. She adored her
grandchildren and enjoyed interior decorating. She was quite a fighter, having been a
juevenille diabetic, surviving Graves Disease and was a two-time cancer survivor.

Survivors include her husband, Tom Garner; daughter, Tommi Garner, grandchildren,
Alex and Danny, daughter Melissa Garner Achterberg and her husband, Royce,
grandchildren, Dillon and Clay, daughter, Heather Breeding and her husband, Adam,
grandchildren, Austin, Addison, Zoe and Rylie; mother, Nannie Elizabeth Parker; sister,
Lou Ann Batchelor and a number of nieces and nephews.

Visitation: 6-8 p.m. Friday at the funeral home.

Celebration of Life service: 6 p.m. Saturday in the chapel of the funeral home.

In lieu of flowers the family suggests that remembrances be given in Bets name to the
American Diabetes Association, 5105 Paulsen Street, Suite C236, Savannah, GA 31405,
www.diabetes.org or to the Susan G. Komen For the Cure, ww5.Komen.org.

Friends may sign the online register book at www.stricklandandsonsfuneralhome.com

Thomas C. Strickland
& Sons Funeral Homes
West Chatham Chapel
901 W. Hwy 80
Pooler, GA 31322
912-748-2444