JONESVILLE, Va. — Willie Lawson Beaty, age 99, passed away Tuesday, October 3, 2009, at Church Hill Health Care and Rehab Center in Church Hill, Tenn.

A lifelong resident of Lee County, Va., she was a member of Morgan Memorial United Methodist Church, the Women’s Missionary Union, and the Rose Hill Homemakers Club.

She was preceded in death by her husband, Samuel McDonald Beaty; her parents, Henry and Addie Lawson; and a daughter, Anna Marie Chance.

Surviving are her two sons, Billy Sam Beaty and wife, Sue of Ewing, Va., and Donald L. Beaty of London, Ky.; two daughters, Helen B. Holt and husband, Lowry of Maryville, Tenn., and Jan Rose Edds of Jonesville; several grandchildren and great-grandchildren; one sister, Wanda Tassinger of Cincinnati, Ohio; and several nieces and nephews.

The family will receive friends from 1-2 p.m. Friday at the Arney-Mullins Funeral Home in Rose Hill, Va.

Funeral services will be conducted at 2 p.m. Friday in the funeral home chapel with the Rev. Darrell Marcum officiating.

Burial will follow in the Beaty Cemetery in Jonesville.

Online condolences may be left for the Beaty family at www.arney-mullinsfuneralhomes.com.

Arney-Mullins Funeral Home of Rose Hill, Va., is in charge of arrangements.