Betty Coble

Betty Lee Byrd Coble, 82, of Mount Gilead passed away Sunday, July 27, 2025 at Moore Regional in Pinehurst.

A private graveside service will be held Wednesday, July 30, 2025 at Hamer Creek Baptist Church Cemetery.  Rev Rupert Medford will officiate.  The family will receive friends Tuesday evening, July 29, 2025 from 6:00pm to 8:00pm at Edwards Funeral Home in Mount Gilead.  

Betty was born January 16, 1943 in Montgomery County to the late Edgar Thaddeus Byrd and Betty Virginia Gardner Byrd.  She was a 1961 graduate of Mount Gilead High School and took secretarial courses at Pfeiffer College.  She put those learned skills to work while her husband was stationed in Wiesbalden, Germany and then went on to work for two, Two Star Generals at the Pentagon in Washington, DC.  After returning to her beloved town of Mount Gilead in the 1980’s she went to work and retired in 2016,  as an Executive Secretary of McRae Industries.

Betty was very family oriented and loved being a grandmother.  She and her husband enjoyed feeding birds, watching butterflies and traveling in Germany during his military career there and then to  Florida, the beaches and mountains.  She was very talented as was obvious in  her home interior decor and her ability to do floral arrangements.  Betty dressed and wore her hair and makeup immaculately at all times.  

She was a life long member of Hamer Creek Baptist Church, where she had taught the Youth Group with her sister, Martha.  

She is survived by her loving husband, of 55 years, Leo Debose Coble of the home; sons Darrell Rison of the Washington, DC area and Christopher Coble(Amanda) of Southern Pines; three grandchildren, her beloved and cherished granddaughter, Kensington Coble of Chapel Hill and grandsons, Easton and Tanner Coble of Southern Pines; brother Steve Byrd(Dianne) of Pine Bluff, Martha Coble(Gene) of Mount Gilead and Edna Ivey(Luther) of Lexington; many nieces and nephews.

Memorial may be made to:  Hamer Creek Baptist Church, 4830 NC Hwy 109S, Mount Gilead, NC 27306.

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