Bettie Louise Jones Snuggs

Bettie Louise Jones Snuggs died peacefully at home on Friday, August 19, 2022 after a long illness. Bettie was born August 3rd, 1933, in Atmore, Alabama, to Ethel and Thad Jones, and she was little sister to Lamar Jones. Bettie had an early love of home economics and used those skills for family and friends. Living in the country far from all of her schools (including her alma mater, Murphy High School), Bettie attended First Baptist Church of Plateau where she accepted Jesus Christ as her Lord and Savior. Graduating from the Mather School of Nursing in September of 1954 in New Orleans, Bettie met and married Harold H. Snuggs, Jr, on April 17th, 1954. They met in New Orleans and lived in Jackson, MS and Greenville, SC. Bettie and Harold settled at Betsy Drive in Columbia, SC, where they lived together for over 60 years.

Bettie will be missed by friends and family. She touched many lives through her membership at First Baptist Church of Columbia. She was a member of the Sunday School, Women’s Mission Union (WMU), the Southern Baptist Nursing Association, senior choir, chaperone and nurse for several mission trips, and den mother for cub scouts, for which she was awarded the Wood Badge for her work and training in Scouting. As a registered nurse, she worked at Good Samaritan Waverley Hospital, trained for disasters, and endeared herself to many families in home health.

She was a Proverbs 31 wife, mother, and friend: “She watches over the affairs of her household and does not eat the bread of idleness… her children will arise and call her blessed… a woman who fears the Lord is to be praised.”

Bettie and Harold spent 63 years together. She will always be remembered as the southern lady who sat by her husband’s hospital bed in Maine, always with a kind word for the staff. In her time together with Harold, she showed her children and grandchildren how to live the Christian life, how to love the Christian way- how to run the race set before us- keeping our eyes fixed on Jesus, the author and protector of our faith. Her favorite quote: “I shall pass through this world but once. Any good therefore I can do or any kindness I can show to any human being, let me do it now. Let me not defer or neglect it. For I shall not pass this way again.”

Going to heaven before her: Ethel and Thad Jones (mother and father), Harold H Snuggs Jr (husband), Lamar and Vera Jones (brother and sister-in-law), and Hal and Terry Snuggs (son and daughter-in-law).

Bettie is survived by daughter Elizabeth Snuggs Charles (retired physician), son-in-law Ed Charles (retired paramedic/ fire fighter), granddaughters Jessica Charles Johnson (veterinarian) and Jill Tremblay Howell (logistics), and grandsons Joey Charles (singer/ songwriter, employed by Focus on the Family) and Bryan E Buffkin (high school English teacher and football coach), and five great-grandchildren.

We’d like to give special thanks to her end-of-life caregivers Cathy Humphries, Liz Collins, Jean Brazell, and to Hospice.

Services will be held at 11:00 a.m. Saturday, August 27, 2022 at Dunbar Funeral Home, Devine Street Chapel with burial in Greenlawn Memorial Park. The family will receive friends from 6:00 until 8:00 p.m. Friday, August 26, 2022, at the funeral home.

Memories may be shared at www.dunbarfunerals.com.