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<div class="upperCaseName" itemprop="name"><span
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class="ObitTextContent" itemprop="description"> Johontas "Jo"
Goodwin Batey, 83, went peacefully to be with her Lord and
Savior on January 9, 2020 in her home in Huntsville, Alabama. <br>
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<div class="ObitTextContent" itemprop="description">She was born
in Sparta, Tennessee on July 12, 1936 to the late Joe Clyde
Goodwin and the late Jessie Lou Goodwin and was the eldest of
three sisters. <br>
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<div class="ObitTextContent" itemprop="description">Visitation
will be at Berryhill Funeral Home from 1:00 pm to 3:00 pm on
Sunday, January 12 with services immediately afterwards. She
graduated in 1954 from White County High School in Tennessee and
then graduated from David Lipscomb College in 1958, majoring in
Business. <br>
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<div class="ObitTextContent" itemprop="description">In 1958 Jo
moved to Huntsville, Alabama where she was employed by Morton <b>Thiokol.</b>
In Huntsville she met the late Zack Taylor Batey and on April
29, 1961 they were married and then started and raised their
family. She was a member of the Central Church of Christ from
1958 to 1981 and then the Mayfair Church of Christ since 1981.
In 1980 she began work at NASA at Marshall Space Flight Center,
working in the Special Projects Office until her retirement in
1995. <br>
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<div class="ObitTextContent" itemprop="description">Jo is survived
by her sisters, Connie Goodwin Jernigan of Sparta, Tennessee and
Ramona Goodwin Brodeur of Brentwood, Tennessee; her children
Zack Taylor Batey, Jr. of Chapin, South Carolina, Laura Batey
Breeden of Huntsville, Alabama, and Thomas Goodwin Batey of
Chapin, South Carolina. She is also survived by her
grandchildren Jessica Breeden Jacobson and Sarah Katherine
Breeden, both of Huntsville, Alabama, and by her great-grandson
Wyatt Jacobson of Huntsville, Alabama. Other survivors include
her son-in-law Jason Breeden of Huntsville, Alabama, her
daughters-in-law Laura Gladden Batey and Jacqueline Suzanne
Batey both of Chapin, South Carolina, her sister-in-laws Katie
Batey Tramel of Nashville, Tennessee and Pat Batey of Columbia,
Tennessee, her brother-in-laws Buddy Jernigan of Sparta,
Tennessee and Richard Brodeur of Brentwood, Tennessee, and her
grandson-in-law Devin Jacobson of Huntsville, Alabama. <br>
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<div class="ObitTextContent" itemprop="description">Jo loved to
travel, play Bridge and Bunco with her friends, and vacation
with her family at Lake Tansi in Crossville, Tennessee. While at
Mayfair she was part of the Monday Meals group that delivered
meals to those in need and worked with the Bible lesson
correspondence ministry. Jo was known for her kind and giving
spirit, quick wit, unwavering faith, active lifestyle, sense for
fashion, and concern for others.</div>
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<div class="ObitTextContent" itemprop="description"> In lieu of
flowers or donations to causes, the family requests that those
wishing to honor Jo to do something nice for someone else to
help carry on her spirit.</div>
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<span id="ctl00_MainContentPlaceholder_PublishedLinePrint"
class="PublishedLine" style="display: block;">Published in The
Huntsville Times on Jan. 10, 2020</span></div>
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as an attractive writer of reports for the Pershing development
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