Obit – Ms. Bettye Rollins

The sudden and unexpected death of Ms. Bettye Rollins age 77 of Lebanon and a longtime Flatrock Community resident has brought much sorrow to her sisters. She was pronounced deceased at 5:25 p.m. Monday evening October 19,2026 at the Vanderbilt Wilson County Hospital in Lebanon suffering from kidney disease.

Graveside services and interment were conducted on Saturday morning October 24th at 11 a.m. with Dr. Joseph Lamb from the Rome Baptist Church officiating. Burial followed in the Rollins family plot in section five at the Ridgewood Cemetery in Carthage.

She was born Bettye Wesley Rollins in Lebanon on March 21, 1949 and was one of four daughters and a son of the late Jeff Talley Rollins who died September 19, 1979 at the age of 66 and Frances Elizabeth Wright Rollins who died March 10, 2024 at the age of 100.

Ms. Rollins only brother, Stephen Talley “Steve” Rollins preceded her in death on May 16, 2024 the age of 59.

She was a 1967 graduate of Smith County High School and there majored in Home Economics and Business Education. She was in F. H.A. all four years and her freshman year was awarded the junior degree, the Chapter Degree her sophomore year, was treasurer her senior year, and was in the art Club her senior year.

It was stated of her in the ’67 Owl annual; Nothing is so popular as kindness”.

Following graduation, she attended and graduated from the former Falls Business College in Nashville.

Ms. Rollins was a member of the Rome Baptist Church.

She was retired from a career in banking.

Surviving are her three sisters, Lana Rollins Chitwood and husband Stephen of Celina, Diana Rollins of Lebanon, and Alice Rollins Bennett and husband Kenneth of the Tuckers Cross Roads Community.

The family requests memorials to New Leash on Life.

SANDERSON of CARTHAGE