Bettie Bowen Payne

Bettie Bowen Payne, age 89 of Springfield, TN, died peacefully on Saturday, August 1, 2015. Funeral services will be conducted Wednesday August 5, 2015 at 10 AM in the Oakhurst Chapel of the Robertson County Funeral Home with Bro. Martin Babb and Dick Moore officiating. Interment will take place at 2 pm Wednesday in Springfield Memorial Gardens with Joseph Pierce, Daniel Payne, Alex Payne, Coll Bowen, Tom Bowen, Ted Stubblefield, Bill Jones Jr. and Charlie Brinkley Jr. serving as pallbearers. Members of the June Burr Sunday School Class will serve as Honorary Pallbearers. The family will receive friends at the funeral home on Tuesday from 4-6 pm and again on Wednesday beginning at 9 am until the hour of service at 10.
Born Alice Elizabeth "Bettie" Bowen on May 21, 1926 in Atlanta, GA to the late Frank C. and Alice Pittman Bowen Sr., she graduated from Atlanta Girls High School in 1944 and then attended Mercer University where she was a member of Alpha Delta Pi Sorority.
Bettie married her husband Don B. Payne on June 10, 1948 and moved to Springfield, TN where she joined Springfield Baptist Church and taught Sunday school for many years. Her church was a very important part of her life and she was very much the encourager to all who entered its doors. Bettie wanted to be of service to others as she started two fund raisers for the Robertson County American Cancer Society, the Spring Fling and Relay for Life. She was a longtime member of the Daughters of the American Revolution and the Short Story Club.
Always putting her family first, she was a true southern lady. Surviving her are her husband of 67 years, Don B. Payne of Springfield; sons, Jeffrey B. (Dianne) Payne of Goodlettsville, David B. Payne of Nashville,; daughter, Donna Ann (Bruce) Pierce of Danville, KY; grandchildren, Joseph Pierce, Allyson (Brandon) Salisbury, Daniel Payne, Daniela Payne, Alex Payne, Natalie Payne and great grandchildren, Addy Salisbury and Gunner Payne. In addition to her parents, Mrs. Payne was also preceded in death by her brothers, Frank "Bud" Bowen Jr. and Charles E. Bowen, of Atlanta.
If so desired, the family request that memorial donations may be made to the Alzheimer's Association or the American Cancer Society. All donations may be sent in care of the Robertson County Funeral Home.

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