SOUTHPORT — Myrtle ‘Connie’ Lipscomb Dewitte, 86, passed away Sunday, July 1, 2018, at her home.
Connie was born June 28, 1932, daughter of the late Harry Lipscomb and Mary Trent Lipscomb. She married the love of her life, Bobby Wells Dewitte, and was married for 52 years.
She was a housewife and also ran two businesses in the Southport area, Needleworks and the Chart House Restaurant.
She was preceded in death by her husband, Bobby Wells Dewitte Sr., in 2009; son, Bobby Wells Dewitte II; and two brothers, Cecil Lipscomb and Euell Lipscomb.
She was a loving mother, grandmother and friend who will be greatly missed.
Survivors include her daughter, Gina Dewitte Todd, and her fiancé, Lewis Wescott Jr. of Southport; four sisters, Esther Jessel of Manassas, Virginia, Raye Hatton of Salem, Virginia, Janice Dixon of Southport, and Joyce Manfield, and her husband, Carl, of Clarksville, Virginia; one grandson who she loved dearly, her “Baby,” Steven Matthew Todd; and several nieces and nephews.
Funeral services will be held at 7:30 p.m., Friday, July 6, at Peacock-Newnam & White Funeral and Cremation Service, Southport. The family will receive friends from 6:30 to 7:30 p.m. prior to the service at the funeral home. Burial will be held Saturday, July 7, in Two Mile Swamp Baptist Church Cemetery in Cope, South Carolina, at a time to be determined.
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