Margaret Aurelia Matthews Botsch

Margaret Aurelia Matthews Botsch was born on June 19, 1921 in Ewing Kentucky to Martin Luther Matthews and Elizabeth Sansbury Matthews. She attended Lees Junior College, worked as a Red Cross volunteer during World War II, and in 1944 married Emil Joseph Botsch after they met while he was stationed at Fort Jackson in Columbia, South Carolina. She moved to Lexington in 1954 and was a full time homemaker until she completed her college degree in elementary education at High Point College. She taught for many years at Holt Elementary. She and Emil retired and in 1985 moved to a home he had built himself with the help of his two sons near Fancy Gap, Virginia, where she lived until several years after Emil’s death in 2007. She was very active in church life wherever she lived, teaching Sunday school and Bible School for many years at First Baptist Church in Lexington. A graveside service will be held at 10:00 am Monday, September 19, 2016 at Forest Hill Memorial Park with Dr. Ray Howell, III officiating. The family will receive friends at Davidson Funeral Home in Lexington from 6:00 until 8:00 pm Sunday night. Surviving are her children, Robert, Jane, Dorothy, and Joseph, along with their spouses, Carol, Bob, Daryl, and Anita respectively; grandchildren David Botsch, Matthew Botsch, Shelley Mason Fox, Zackary Martin, Dylan Hutchison, and Diana Nelson; great grandchildren Lynette, Madelyn, Annabeth, and Roslyn Nelson, and Ava Claire Mason. Because of her love for cats that dated back to her early days on Kentucky farms, memorials may be directed to your local SPCA or animal shelter. Online condolences may be made at www.davidsonfuneralhome.net