Elizabeth "Betty" Sellers

1923-2017

Elizabeth Ann (Betty) Perryman Sellers, 94, passed away on July 30, 2017 at her home of more than 50 years in Gulf Breeze, FL.

Betty was a native of Montgomery, AL, and graduated in 1945 from Alabama College (now University of Montevallo), with a degree in chemistry. She worked at Southern Research Institute in Birmingham, AL, where she met her husband, Henry G. Sellers, Jr. They were married in 1948, relocated to Pensacola in 1957, and to Gulf Breeze in 1967.

She was a Girl Scout leader, a school library volunteer, and a devoted mother to her children. Betty also was a volunteer at Sacred Heart Children's Hospital.

Betty was prolific and accomplished in many forms of needlework, and was a founding member of the Gulf Coast Stitchery Guild. She was a member of the Daughters of the American Revolution and Colonial Dames.

She was a longtime member of First Baptist Church of Pensacola, and was a volunteer church librarian for many years. Betty also was active in the church's Samaritan Hands ministry. She prepared baked goods for the Waterfront Mission New Hope Recovery Center on a monthly basis until she was well past her 90 ^th birthday.

She was preceded in death by her husband, Henry G. Sellers, Jr.; her parents, George Ira Perryman, Sr. and Elizabeth Moffett Perryman; and by her brothers, George Ira Perryman, Jr. and Robert Thomas "Bob" Perryman.

Betty is survived by her children, Martha Cohen and Richard G. Sellers, M.D.; her daughter-in-law Beth; her grandchildren, Josh Cohen and his wife, Angeline, Rebekah Cole and her husband, Cade, Abby Crangle and her husband, Casey, Ben Sellers, Preston Sellers, and Madeline Sellers; and by her eight great-grandchildren.

Visitation will be held 5:00-7:00 p.m. on Tuesday, August 1, 2017 at Harper-Morris Memorial Chapel, 2276 Airport Blvd., Pensacola, FL.

Funeral Services will be held at 10:00am on August 2, 2017 in the Pleitz Chapel at First Baptist Church of Pensacola, 500 N. Palafox Street, with Rev. Ross Lankford presiding. Interment will follow at Rose Lawn Cemetery in Gulf Breeze.

In lieu of flowers, the family requests that contributions be made to Samaritan Hands Ministry of First Baptist Church of Pensacola, 500 N. Palafox St., Pensacola, FL 32501.