Betty Lynn (Bryan) Haslam, 63
She was the only daughter of the late Charles Faulkner and Edith (Hillis) Bryan of McMinnville. She graduated from McMinnville City High School in 1959 and studied at the University of Tennessee and MTSU. She later studied art with Tucker Cooke at the University of North Carolina and did volunteer work for nine years at Memorial Mission Hospital ICU.
A gifted artist, she presented her paintings in her first gallery exhibition in 2003 at The Station Pure Art in McMinnville. She continued painting until her health declined.
She is survived by her husband, retired MD Oncologist John Battle Haslam; sons and daughters-in-law, John Bryan and Susan Haslam, Mark Hamilton and Kelly Haslam; grandchildren, Katy and Wynn Haslam; and sister-in-law, Henley Haslam, all of Asheville; brother and prominent historian, Charles Faulkner Bryan Jr. and his wife, Cammy of Richmond, Va.; niece and her spouse, Alethea Bryan and Glen Gerding of Chapel Hill, N.C.; nephew and spouse, Charles Faulkner Bryan III and Angela of Mechanicsville, Va.
A memorial service will be held at 11 a.m. EST Saturday at Trinity Episcopal Church, located at 64 Church Street in Asheville. A memorial service is being planned for McMinnville and will be announced at a later date.
Southern Standard
(McMinnville, Tenn.) April 21, 2004