Shorter to celebrate 100th birthday May 16
Betty Davis Shorter (photo:Submitted )
She graduated from Norris High School, now Norris Middle School, in May 1943. She attended Lincoln Memorial University in Harrogate and graduated from business college in Boone, North Carolina.
Shorter worked at Stone & Webster, the Manhattan Engineer District and for more than 30 years at the Department of Energy in Oak Ridge before retiring.
She married the late William C. “Bill” Shorter in 1946.
She is the mother of three daughters: Diane Skeens and her husband, Steve, of Andersonville; the late Linda McKamey and her husband, Robert, of Clinton; and Teresa McBee and her late husband, Dan, of Norris.
She has six grandchildren, eight great-grandchildren and three great-great-grandchildren.
Shorter has been a member of Bethel Baptist Church in Clinton for more than 90 years. She enjoys spending time with her family and church family.
