Betty was born at home in “the Barr” to Lawrence and Catherine King in Fintona, Northern Ireland. She was the fourth of seven children. Betty grew up on the farm, learned to work hard and to work together for the family. At age 17, she followed in her brother, Fran and her sister, Resa’s footsteps and immigrated to the US. Under her Uncle Frank and Auntie Mary’s sponsorship, she created a life she loved in NY: an apartment with her friends and a job with the New York Telephone Company.

Betty has always loved music and at the local Irish dance hall, she met her beloved John McFall. On May 25, 1968, Betty married her best friend, John. They would soon move to Hughsonville, NY and raise their two daughters, Beth and Shauna. As a mother, she offered the rarest gifts: her time, her listening ear, her steady encouragement. Betty was a devoted wife. Her marriage to John was a portrait of mutual respect and true love. She worked part time over the years but focused on her family, growing her flowers and garden, making home cooked meals and in her faith. Betty was organic by lifestyle, reading tea leaves for the neighborhood kids, making dandelion tea and sewing the family clothes.

Although they were many miles apart, Betty always stayed close with her siblings . Traveling home as often as possible.

Eventually, Betty was blessed with the new name of “Mima”. She was a regular fixture in the lives of her grandsons, Ronan and Keagan, rarely going more than a few days without seeing her boys.

Betty was never one to make a show of things, she was a quiet grounding. She was practical, honest, loving and funny in her own special way of “Bettyland”.

She is survived by her loving husband John. Her daughters and their husbands, Beth and Greg Verlinde and Shauna and Matt Heneka. Her grandson’s, John Ronan and Keagan Heneka.

She is greeted in Heaven by her parents, her brothers and sister - Fran, Stephen and Nuala.

A private vigil will be held on Sept 17 ,2025 and burial following at Bosque Bella in Fernandina Beach, Florida.

In lieu of flowers, please do a good deed, plant a flower or just be kind.

Though she no longer walks beside us, her love remains ever present, ever felt and ever ours.

Our Betty, Mom, Mima, will be in our hearts forever