1950
– December 9 – My Grandmother, Bettie Lanter Montague Vaughn Lowe Died
My mother’s mother was Bettie Lanter. Her first
husband had been a railroad man by the name of Robert Ottinger Montague. They
had two sons, Robert, Jr. and Grover; and a little girl named Pearlie. Pearlie
was struck by lightning inside the house and killed.
After Grandma Bettie divorced Montague she had
married my grandfather, Albert Vaughn. We had always been told that Bettie was
so jealous of Grandpa Vaughn that he had felt smothered and that was why he had
left her; he just couldn’t take the jealousy.
After that she had married a man with the last name
of Lowe. It’s been so many years I can’t seem to recall what his first name
was.
But what I’m getting to is that when Mom had gone to
see Grandma Bettie on her death bed; Grandma Bettie had greeted and said,
“Honey, I was a tryin’ to get you a new daddy; but I took sick and didn’t get
the job done.”
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