Betty Yvonne Jenkins

On the morning of February 26, 2018, Betty Jenkins’ faith became sight. She passed in the comfort of her own home following a brief illness. Her children are grateful for the love and support shown by family, friends, and neighbors that filled her home over the last several weeks.

Betty was born Betty Yvonne Livengood in Cherry Grove, WV, on December 22, 1929, daughter to the late Ralph and Iva Dixon Livengood. She most recently resided in Valley Point but lived the majority of her life in the Lenox community.

Betty and her late husband, Harold, owned and operated Jenkins Trucking & Sons and East View Farms for nearly 70 years. In addition to being a busy homemaker, Betty cooked at the Albright Elementary School for six years, was active in multiple community organizations including the Lenox Homemakers, Cuzzart Helping Hands Quilting Club, and Preston County Senior Center. Betty was honored as the Bruceton/Brandonville Good Neighbor by the Bruceton/Brandonville Volunteer Fire Department during their annual celebration, Good Neighbor Days. She loved music and was a member of The Country Church Singers group, with whom she performed at various churches, television stations, and other local venues

Every fall season, family, friends, and neighbors looked forward to making apple butter with Betty on the Jenkins farm. If you stirred for a while in the old copper kettle, tended to the fire, or prepped the jars, she allowed you to take a pint home. Like the numerous quilts she constructed throughout her lifetime, Betty also intertwined a golden thread of compassion, values, and good advice into the lives of so many. Her door was always open, as was her kitchen, pantry, and willingness to play a card game or a round of Chicken Foot.

Betty was Methodist by faith and was a member of the Pleasant Valley and Mt. Moriah United Methodist Churches. One may never know the adversities she faced throughout her life, but we now know for certain, she rejoices in the splendors of heaven because of the matchless gift of Salvation through her Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ.

She leaves treasured memories for her daughter Loraine Sue Gribble and husband Kermit; three sons, Robert ‘Bobby Glen’ Jenkins and wife Kay, Eugene Jenkins and wife Joan, Jack Jenkins and wife Vicki; two sisters, Judy Bolyard and husband John and Norma Jean ‘Jeanie’ Miller and husband Donnie and one brother Stanley Livengood and wife Ella. She was known to many as Grandma Betty and will be fondly remembered by 10 grandchildren; 16 great-grandchildren; one great great-granddaughter and her faithful canine Pomeranian, Fancy.

In addition to her parents and husband Harold, she was preceded in death by one son, Johnny Wayne Jenkins; one brother Glen Livengood and his wife Wanda Gae and two sisters, Aletha (2) and infant sister Barbara June.

Family will receive friends in celebration of Betty's life at the Mt. Moriah United Methodist Church on Tuesday Feb. 27, 2018 from 3pm until 7pm and again on Wednesday from 10am until her funeral service at 11am with Pastor Mark Harris officiating. She will be laid to rest beside her husband at the Centenary Cemetery.

The family would like to thank her caregivers, Tina Bishop, Phyllis Stanton, Dorothy Riffle and nurses of Hospice Care for the compassion and tender mercy shown to Betty over the past several weeks.