Betty Singletary

1933 - 2025

Betty H. Singletary of Lexington, South Carolina, passed away on October 12, 2025. Born on August 12, 1933, in Gold Hill, North Carolina, to parents, Edward D. and Ollie Barringer Honeycutt, Betty graduated from Mt. Pleasant High School in Mt. Pleasant, North Carolina. She retired from the South Carolina Department of Agriculture as a lab technician after 30 years.

Betty is survived by her daughter, Rhonda S. (Paul) deGategno of West Chester, Pennsylvania, and grandchildren, Patrick (Keri) and Kathleen deGategno, as well as her daughter-in-law, Tamara M. Singletary of Albemarle, North Carolina, and grandchildren, Lauren S. (Bradley) Chandler and David (Jordan) Singletary. Betty was blessed to have five loving great-grandchildren: Alexandra deGategno, Blakely and Bud Maverick Chandler, and Lennon and Grayson Singletary. She is preceded in death by her husband, H. Earl Singletary, and her son, H. Earl (Bud) Singletary, Jr., as well as her parents, her three brothers (George, Horace, and Ed Lee Honeycutt), and her four sisters (Helen Bonds, Margaret Fisher, Lucille Sylvester, and Katherine Barrier).

Services for Betty are under the direction of Barr-Price Funeral Home and Crematorium in Lexington, South Carolina, with a memorial service at Redeemer Lutheran Church, 525 St. Andrews Rd., Columbia, South Carolina, at a future date.