Dorothy Ellen Simpson Becton

Mrs. Dorothy Ellen Simpson Becton age 93 of Gainesville passed away on Monday January 16, 2017 at New Horizon Lanier Park following an extended illness.

Funeral service are scheduled for Saturday January 21, 2017 at 3:30 p.m. in the Chapel of Memorial Park Funeral Home with interment to follow in Memorial Park Cemetery. Reverend Drewery Loggins will officiate. The family will receive friends on Saturday January 21, 2017 from 1:00-3:30 p.m. at the funeral home.

Mrs. Becton was born on June 01, 1923 in Pelham, Georgia to the late J.F. Simpson and Mary Maude Kelly Simpson. They moved to Florida but later moved back to Georgia where her father was in the retail grocery business in Cairo. In 1940 she graduated from Cairo High School and from Freeman Business College in Albany in 1941. She worked for the department of Agriculture in Cairo and after WWII began work at Finney Gen. Hospital in Thomasville, where wounded service men were hospitalized. She worked in Civilian Personnel as a recruiter and interviewer and conducted Civil Service Examination. After the war she transferred to Atlanta to the VA Regional office. Later she worked for war assets administration and upon its termination transferred to Fort McPherson where she worked as an Exec. Secretary in transportation and engineer department. Her last federal position was at Atlanta army depot where she retired with 30 years federal service.

She and her husband, Lcol (USA Ret) Wendell R. Becton, Sr. moved to Gainesville in 1974. They were active in First Baptist Church and several local organizations. She was twiced widowed in 1963 Ernest N. Scoggins died and Lcol Wendell R. Becton in 2000, and Wilburn A. Simpson, a brother, Kelly Simpson predeceased her.

She is survived by her daughter, Sue Reid of Townville, South Carolina, daughter and son-in-law, Martha and Bill Cook of Grayson, grandchildren, Cary Reid, Angela Skaggs, and Rusty Brown, and sister, Nalona Dunlap of Cairo.

Memorial Park Funeral Home, 2030 Memorial Park Road, Gainesville, GA  30504 is in charge of arrangements.

Send online condolences to www.memorialparkfuneralhomes.com.