{"id":10742,"date":"2020-02-21T08:57:30","date_gmt":"2020-02-21T13:57:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/?p=10742"},"modified":"2020-02-23T23:51:06","modified_gmt":"2020-02-24T04:51:06","slug":"betty-lou","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/2020\/02\/betty-lou\/","title":{"rendered":"Betty Lou"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"621\" height=\"850\" src=\"http:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/ethel-bl-scruggs.jpg\" alt=\"Betty Lou on the porch of her natal home with grandmother Ethel Leake Scruggs\" class=\"wp-image-10743\" srcset=\"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/ethel-bl-scruggs.jpg 621w, https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/ethel-bl-scruggs-219x300.jpg 219w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px\" \/><figcaption>Following his death in 1905, John Wesley Scruggs\u2019 widow, Ethel, moved from the northeast corner of the Woolen Mills neighborhood to Market Street.<br> Pictured above, Ethel and her granddaughter, Betty Lou.<br> Ethel was a weaver at the Woolen Mills. Ethel is buried in Riverview cemetery.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" src=\"http:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/102-bls-cmy0923-wm-2115-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-10744\" srcset=\"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/102-bls-cmy0923-wm-2115-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/102-bls-cmy0923-wm-2115-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/102-bls-cmy0923-wm-2115-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/102-bls-cmy0923-wm-2115.jpg 1028w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><figcaption>Ethel&#8217;s grand-daughter, Betty Lou (above center) was born in 1932, daughter of Lucian and Virginia Hall Scruggs.<br> Betty Lou attended the Woolen Mills School.<br> Betty Lou loved her church, her community, her family, her friends and her neighborhood and they loved her<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" src=\"http:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/081031-Scruggs-King-Strauss-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-10749\" srcset=\"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/081031-Scruggs-King-Strauss-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/081031-Scruggs-King-Strauss-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/081031-Scruggs-King-Strauss-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/081031-Scruggs-King-Strauss.jpg 1028w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"680\" src=\"http:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/k582c3-scruggs-1024x680.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-10745\" srcset=\"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/k582c3-scruggs-1024x680.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/k582c3-scruggs-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/k582c3-scruggs-768x510.jpg 768w, https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/k582c3-scruggs.jpg 1028w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><figcaption>Betty Lou was solid as a rock, a straight-shooter. She lived in her house for 88 years. Betty Lou died Sunday night.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"684\" src=\"http:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/180321-snow-scruggs-1024x684.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-10746\" srcset=\"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/180321-snow-scruggs-1024x684.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/180321-snow-scruggs-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/180321-snow-scruggs-768x513.jpg 768w, https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/180321-snow-scruggs.jpg 1028w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><figcaption>She will be missed.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailyprogress.com\/obituaries\/scruggs-betty-lou\/article_7a722b07-ddc0-565d-9754-d7740921b472.html?utm_source=WhatCountsEmail&amp;utm_medium=NEWS%20-%20Obituary%20Newsletter&amp;utm_campaign=_NEWS%20Obituaries%20Newsletter\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"obituary (opens in a new tab)\">obituary<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>obituary<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"Following his death in 1905, John Wesley Scruggs\u2019 widow, Ethel, moved from the northeast corner of the Woolen Mills neighborhood to Market Street.\n Pictured above, Ethel and her granddaughter, Betty Lou.","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[12,23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10742","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-neighborhood","category-people"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10742"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10742"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10742\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10750,"href":"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10742\/revisions\/10750"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10742"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10742"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10742"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}