SEN. TERRY SANFORD'S MOTHER DIES AT 99
Posted: Sunday, December 27, 1987 12:00 am
A Staff And Wire Report
Sunday, December 27, 1987
LAURINBURG
Elizabeth Martin Sanford, mother of U.S. Sen. Terry Sanford, died early Saturday of a heart attack during a holiday visit to her son's home in Durham, officials said. She was 99.
Mrs. Sanford, better known as Betsy, was stricken with a "massive heart attack" at about 3:45 a.m., said Bill Green, a member of Sanford's Washington staff. She was taken to Duke University Medical Center, where she was pronounced dead, he said.
Her funeral is 11 a.m. Monday at the First United Methodist Church in Laurinburg.
Mrs. Sanford was a long-time resident of Laurinburg, where she taught in public schools for more than 40 years and became a beloved personality in her own right, Green said.
She also taught in an adult literacy program until she was 97 years old.
She was born in Salem, Va., on Nov. 30, 1888, and graduated from Randolph-Macon College in Ashland, Va. She moved to Laurinburg in 1913.
She was a member of the First United Methodist Church here for 72 years and taught Sunday school for many years. She also was honored as Lay Person of the Year this year by the church.
The Sanford family has asked that, in lieu of flowers, donations be made in Mrs. Sanford's memory to the building fund at the church, where two Sunday school classes are named for her, Green said.
Sanford, who served as governor of North Carolina from 1961 to 1965 and later as president of Duke University, liked to recall that he got his start in politics at age 11, when, in 1928, his mother took him to a torchlight parade for Democratic presidential nominee Al Smith. Young Sanford carried a sign that read, "Me and Ma Is for Al."
Mrs. Sanford continued to be politically active after her retirement. In November of last year, a few weeks before her 98th birthday, she was handing out Sanford literature on Election Day, the day her son outpolled Republican Jim Broyhill to win the U.S. Senate seat.
However, she said in an interview earlier this year, she went to bed at her regular time that election night, adding that she would have been just as relieved had her son lost the election, so he could retire.
Mrs. Sanford will be buried in the Hillside Cemetery.
Surviving are her sons, Terry Sanford of Durham, and Cecil Sanford Jr. of Hillsborough; two daughters, Mary Glenn Rose of Telford, Pa., and Helen Wilhelm of Bern, Switzerland; a brother, Chandler Martin of Richmond, Va.; two sisters, Helen Shaw of Fayetteville, and Virginia Campbell of Salem, Va.; nine grandchildren and four great-grandchildren.
Her family will be at the McDougald Funeral Home from 7 until 9 p.m. today.
Posted: Sunday, December 27, 1987 12:00 am
A Staff And Wire Report
Sunday, December 27, 1987
LAURINBURG
Elizabeth Martin Sanford, mother of U.S. Sen. Terry Sanford, died early Saturday of a heart attack during a holiday visit to her son's home in Durham, officials said. She was 99.
Mrs. Sanford, better known as Betsy, was stricken with a "massive heart attack" at about 3:45 a.m., said Bill Green, a member of Sanford's Washington staff. She was taken to Duke University Medical Center, where she was pronounced dead, he said.
Her funeral is 11 a.m. Monday at the First United Methodist Church in Laurinburg.
Mrs. Sanford was a long-time resident of Laurinburg, where she taught in public schools for more than 40 years and became a beloved personality in her own right, Green said.
She also taught in an adult literacy program until she was 97 years old.
She was born in Salem, Va., on Nov. 30, 1888, and graduated from Randolph-Macon College in Ashland, Va. She moved to Laurinburg in 1913.
She was a member of the First United Methodist Church here for 72 years and taught Sunday school for many years. She also was honored as Lay Person of the Year this year by the church.
The Sanford family has asked that, in lieu of flowers, donations be made in Mrs. Sanford's memory to the building fund at the church, where two Sunday school classes are named for her, Green said.
Sanford, who served as governor of North Carolina from 1961 to 1965 and later as president of Duke University, liked to recall that he got his start in politics at age 11, when, in 1928, his mother took him to a torchlight parade for Democratic presidential nominee Al Smith. Young Sanford carried a sign that read, "Me and Ma Is for Al."
Mrs. Sanford continued to be politically active after her retirement. In November of last year, a few weeks before her 98th birthday, she was handing out Sanford literature on Election Day, the day her son outpolled Republican Jim Broyhill to win the U.S. Senate seat.
However, she said in an interview earlier this year, she went to bed at her regular time that election night, adding that she would have been just as relieved had her son lost the election, so he could retire.
Mrs. Sanford will be buried in the Hillside Cemetery.
Surviving are her sons, Terry Sanford of Durham, and Cecil Sanford Jr. of Hillsborough; two daughters, Mary Glenn Rose of Telford, Pa., and Helen Wilhelm of Bern, Switzerland; a brother, Chandler Martin of Richmond, Va.; two sisters, Helen Shaw of Fayetteville, and Virginia Campbell of Salem, Va.; nine grandchildren and four great-grandchildren.
Her family will be at the McDougald Funeral Home from 7 until 9 p.m. today.
SEN. TERRY SANFORD'S MOTHER DIES AT 99
Posted: Sunday, December 27, 1987 12:00 am
A Staff And Wire Report
Sunday, December 27, 1987
LAURINBURG
Elizabeth Martin Sanford, mother of U.S. Sen. Terry Sanford, died early Saturday of a heart attack during a holiday visit to her son's home in Durham, officials said. She was 99.
Mrs. Sanford, better known as Betsy, was stricken with a "massive heart attack" at about 3:45 a.m., said Bill Green, a member of Sanford's Washington staff. She was taken to Duke University Medical Center, where she was pronounced dead, he said.
Her funeral is 11 a.m. Monday at the First United Methodist Church in Laurinburg.
Mrs. Sanford was a long-time resident of Laurinburg, where she taught in public schools for more than 40 years and became a beloved personality in her own right, Green said.
She also taught in an adult literacy program until she was 97 years old.
She was born in Salem, Va., on Nov. 30, 1888, and graduated from Randolph-Macon College in Ashland, Va. She moved to Laurinburg in 1913.
She was a member of the First United Methodist Church here for 72 years and taught Sunday school for many years. She also was honored as Lay Person of the Year this year by the church.
The Sanford family has asked that, in lieu of flowers, donations be made in Mrs. Sanford's memory to the building fund at the church, where two Sunday school classes are named for her, Green said.
Sanford, who served as governor of North Carolina from 1961 to 1965 and later as president of Duke University, liked to recall that he got his start in politics at age 11, when, in 1928, his mother took him to a torchlight parade for Democratic presidential nominee Al Smith. Young Sanford carried a sign that read, "Me and Ma Is for Al."
Mrs. Sanford continued to be politically active after her retirement. In November of last year, a few weeks before her 98th birthday, she was handing out Sanford literature on Election Day, the day her son outpolled Republican Jim Broyhill to win the U.S. Senate seat.
However, she said in an interview earlier this year, she went to bed at her regular time that election night, adding that she would have been just as relieved had her son lost the election, so he could retire.
Mrs. Sanford will be buried in the Hillside Cemetery.
Surviving are her sons, Terry Sanford of Durham, and Cecil Sanford Jr. of Hillsborough; two daughters, Mary Glenn Rose of Telford, Pa., and Helen Wilhelm of Bern, Switzerland; a brother, Chandler Martin of Richmond, Va.; two sisters, Helen Shaw of Fayetteville, and Virginia Campbell of Salem, Va.; nine grandchildren and four great-grandchildren.
Her family will be at the McDougald Funeral Home from 7 until 9 p.m. today.
Posted: Sunday, December 27, 1987 12:00 am
A Staff And Wire Report
Sunday, December 27, 1987
LAURINBURG
Elizabeth Martin Sanford, mother of U.S. Sen. Terry Sanford, died early Saturday of a heart attack during a holiday visit to her son's home in Durham, officials said. She was 99.
Mrs. Sanford, better known as Betsy, was stricken with a "massive heart attack" at about 3:45 a.m., said Bill Green, a member of Sanford's Washington staff. She was taken to Duke University Medical Center, where she was pronounced dead, he said.
Her funeral is 11 a.m. Monday at the First United Methodist Church in Laurinburg.
Mrs. Sanford was a long-time resident of Laurinburg, where she taught in public schools for more than 40 years and became a beloved personality in her own right, Green said.
She also taught in an adult literacy program until she was 97 years old.
She was born in Salem, Va., on Nov. 30, 1888, and graduated from Randolph-Macon College in Ashland, Va. She moved to Laurinburg in 1913.
She was a member of the First United Methodist Church here for 72 years and taught Sunday school for many years. She also was honored as Lay Person of the Year this year by the church.
The Sanford family has asked that, in lieu of flowers, donations be made in Mrs. Sanford's memory to the building fund at the church, where two Sunday school classes are named for her, Green said.
Sanford, who served as governor of North Carolina from 1961 to 1965 and later as president of Duke University, liked to recall that he got his start in politics at age 11, when, in 1928, his mother took him to a torchlight parade for Democratic presidential nominee Al Smith. Young Sanford carried a sign that read, "Me and Ma Is for Al."
Mrs. Sanford continued to be politically active after her retirement. In November of last year, a few weeks before her 98th birthday, she was handing out Sanford literature on Election Day, the day her son outpolled Republican Jim Broyhill to win the U.S. Senate seat.
However, she said in an interview earlier this year, she went to bed at her regular time that election night, adding that she would have been just as relieved had her son lost the election, so he could retire.
Mrs. Sanford will be buried in the Hillside Cemetery.
Surviving are her sons, Terry Sanford of Durham, and Cecil Sanford Jr. of Hillsborough; two daughters, Mary Glenn Rose of Telford, Pa., and Helen Wilhelm of Bern, Switzerland; a brother, Chandler Martin of Richmond, Va.; two sisters, Helen Shaw of Fayetteville, and Virginia Campbell of Salem, Va.; nine grandchildren and four great-grandchildren.
Her family will be at the McDougald Funeral Home from 7 until 9 p.m. today.
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