Betty Ann Thames Hatchell, 82, of Mount Pleasant, South Carolina, wife of the late Manton James Hatchell died Friday, November 30, 2018. Her funeral service will be held Tuesday, December 4, 2018, in the First Baptist Church of Charleston, 48 meeting Street at 2:00 pm. Entombment will follow in Mount Pleasant Memorial Gardens, 1308 Mathis Ferry Road. The family will receive friends at the church Tuesday from 1:00 pm until time of the service. Arrangements by J. Henry Stuhr, Inc. Mount Pleasant Chapel

Betty Ann was born May 21, 1936 in Sumter, South Carolina, daughter of the late Frank Allison Thames and the late Edna Johnson Thames. She graduated from Edmund's High School in Sumter, South Carolina and attended the Baptist College of Charleston. Betty Ann was a Sunday School teacher and taught kindergarten at First Baptist Church School in Charleston where she was a member of the Nonie Wilson Sunday School Class. She was also the former owner of Betty Ann's Ladies Apparel and member of the Mt. Pleasant Women's Club and Shem Creek Sisterhood Bridge Club.

She is survived by three children, son, Michael J. Hatchell and his wife, Pamela of Hobe Sound, FL, Lynda H Miller and her husband Douglas of Mount Pleasant, SC, and Karen H. Carlin of Mount Pleasant, SC; four grandsons, Jared James Hatchell and his wife Rhiannon and their daughter Cassandra, Jordan James Hatchell, George Patrick Carlin, III and James Hamilton Carlin; three brothers, Frank Allison Thames, Pete Thames and Randy Thames; and one sister, Jennifer T. Kolb. She was preceded in death by her brother, Harold Thames and her sisters, Carolyn L. Cody, Dorothy T. Cockerill, Gladys T. Timmons, and Preto Thames.

Memorials may be made to the First Baptist Church of Charleston or the First Baptist School of Charleston, 48 Meeting Street, Charleston, SC 29401.