Longtime Haleyville educator, pastor’s wife Betty Stringfellow dies at 88

Betty Earle Slaughter Stringfellow of Haleyville died Aug. 9. She was 88.

A native of Birmingham, she was a graduate of Howard College (now Samford University) and the University of North Alabama. She was an educator for 33 years mostly in Haleyville, where her husband, T.B. Stringfellow Jr., is pastor emeritus of First Baptist Church and where the couple were members.

She is survived by her husband of 70 years, three children, two grandchildren and five great-grandchildren.