Elizabeth Andrews

1938 - 2022

Elizabeth Williams Andrews, Date of Death – 12/19/2022. Elizabeth Williams Andrews, known to friends and family as Betty, died at Lakeview Hospital in Covington Louisiana, after a brief illness caused by complications from a blood infection. She was 84 years old. Betty was born in Natchitoches, Louisiana to parents Samuel Elzie Williams and Eloise Evans Williams in 1938. She was predeceased by her parents, her husband, James Connie Andrews, to whom she was married for 60 years, and her brother, Samuel Elzie Williams II. She leaves to cherish her memory her brother Robert Williams, her four sons, James Mark Andrews (Jean), Brian Delford Andrews, William Scott Andrews (Clayton), and Christopher Evans Andrews (Pam). She was proud of her seven grandchildren and four great grandchildren. Others very dear to her were her sister-in-law, Dottie King Williams, and her niece, Ashley Williams Neuman, who were constant in their help and companionship in the last years of her life. Betty had many fond memories of visiting her grandfather's farm on the Cane River, and riding standing up in the back of his pickup truck as he drove through the planted fields. While Betty was growing up, her parents moved several times, living in Memphis, Brooklyn, and Detroit, but ultimately coming to reside in New Orleans in the Carrollton area, where Betty went to school at Robert E. Lee School and Fortier High School. After attending several years of Newcomb College, Betty met the love of her life, James Connie Andrews, who she married in 1958 in Trout, Louisiana. Together, Betty and Connie created a life for themselves that took them to many and varied far- off lands. In the 1960's they took their family of 5 to live in Beirut Lebanon, and shortly after, to Lagos, Nigeria, where their fourth son was born. After returning briefly to the United States, and living in Covington, Louisiana for a few years, they returned overseas to live in Inverness Scotland, where Connie was the Managing Director of McDermott International's Ardersier Fabrication Yard. After returning briefly to Covington in the late 1970's and 1980's, Betty and her husband returned overseas, living in Dubai in the United Arab Emirates on-and-off for the remaining two decades. After returning to the United States for the last time, they moved to Austin, Texas where their youngest son lived, in order to enjoy their retirement years, and where Connie died in 2018. Shortly after her husband's death, Betty moved back to Covington, where she could be close to her friends and family who lived in the area. During the many years that Betty lived in the Covington area, she was the member of numerous clubs and organizations, including the Tchefuncte Garden Club, the Tchefuncte Honey Bees, and the Northshore Republican Women's Club. She also volunteered her spare time to Northshore Hospice, visiting, reading to, and attending patients. Betty was artistic as well as adventurous. Besides being a world traveler, collector of antiques and jewelry (which she wore every day regardless of occasion), and a general bon vivant, she also sculpted, and painted pottery and china. Her most cherished piece was a bust of her husband that she sculpted from clay and displayed prominently in her apartment. Betty was much beloved by family, friends, and all that knew her. As the last matriarch of the Andrews family, she will be deeply and sadly missed. No funeral arrangements have been made at this time. A memorial service, which will be announced to friends and family, will be held at a later date.