Betty Jo McComsey

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Published on January 27, 2002, SUNDAY NEWS (LANCASTER, PA.)
By Model T, she brought the mail to White Rock
Wayne Winters, who lives in Willow Valley Square, submitted this photo taken in the village of White Rock, several miles south of Quarryville, around 1919 or 1920.
According to Wayne, the woman in the photo is Wynona Jamison McComsey. She is holding her daughter Betty Jo, with son Ted standing to her left. Mrs. McComsey was the postmistress for the area.
"Every day she drove her Model T to and from Quarryvile to pick up the mail, regardless of ...


Published on April 8, 1997, Intelligencer Journal (Lancaster, PA)
BETTY JO WINTERS, 76, MCCASKEY GRAD
Betty Jo Winters, 76, a church and community volunteer, died Saturday of natural causes at The Glen at Willow Valley. She had been under the care of a physician.
A resident of Willow Valley Manor, 211 Willow Valley Square, for the past 12 years, she previously lived in Manheim Township.
She was the wife of Wayne W. Winters. They were married for 55 years.
A member of the first class to graduate from McCaskey High School, she attended Millersville University and was a graduate ...

The 1940 Federal Census for Lancaster City (Ward 7), PA, District 36-74, page 1314B, dated April 16, 1940 records Betty McComsey (19) living with her widowed mother Wynona McComsey (46 - PA) and brothers Robert (25) and Theodore (24) living at 639 East End Avenue. Wynona has completed 1 year of high school, Betty 4 years of high school, Robert 2 years of college, and Theodore 3 years of college. Robert is employed as an electrician at the public utility earning $1,196 working 52 weeks during the last year and Theodore as an attendent at a gas station earning $364 working 19 weeks during the last year.

The SSDI records:
Betty Jo Winters
SSN: 188-05-3889
Last Residence: 17602 Lancaster, Lancaster, Pennsylvania
Born: 29 Oct 1920
Died: 5 Apr 1997
State (Year) SSN issued: Pennsylvania (Before 1951)

Betty married Wayne Woodrow Winters, son of Howard Franklin Winters and Mary "Mamie" J. Alexander, circa 1942 in Lancaster, Lancaster Co., PA. (Wayne Woodrow Winters was born on 18 Jun 1918 in Lancaster Co., PA and died on 30 Dec 2013 in Lancaster City, Lancaster Co., PA.)