Pickett - Amy Beatty
Source: Crawfordsville Journal Review 9-Aug-1962 p. 3
Mrs. Amy Beatty Pickett of 407 E. Main St., a former teacher in Crawfordsville High School, died Wednesday at 8:20 p.m. at the Carle Clinic in Urbana, Ill. She had been critically ill for the past three weeks. Mrs. Pickett was born in Hico, Tex., the daughter of James Robert and Emily Moorhouse Beatty. She was married to Nathan Pickett in Crawfordsville March 3, 1939. A member of the First Methodist Church, Mrs. Pickett was president of the WSCS. She was a charter member of Delta Gamma social sorority at Butler University, member of Chimes Junior Honorary Society, Scarlet Quill Honorary Society, Mortar Board and a charter member of Kappa Kappa Kappa. She was also active in Arts and Crafts Club, League of Women Voters, Music Club, served as president of the Montgomery County Girl Scouts Association and the Willson School PTA. Mrs. Pickett is survived by her husband, who is a representative of the Elston Bank’s installment loan department; a son, William B., at home; and a daughter, Mary Anne, a sophomore at Lake Forest College. Other survivors are two sisters, Mrs. Minnie B. Cooksey of Crawfordsville and Mrs. Clara Beatty Sellars of Pleasant Ridge, Mich., and several nieces and nephews and cousins. She was preceded in death by three brothers and two sisters. Funeral services will be at 10:30 a.m. Saturday at the Hunt and Son Funeral Home. Burial will be in Oak Hill Cemetery. Friends may call at the funeral home after 1 p.m. Friday.
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