Betty Hintz, a prolific volunteer in Bermuda hailed by her family as a “lifelong learner”, has died at the age of 93.

Mrs Hintz, of Bluffton, South Carolina, served as a Sterling Stitcher and Pink Lady at King Edward VII Memorial Hospital during her time on the island.

She also volunteered at the Bermuda National Trust, Bermuda Musical and Dramatic Society, and the Bermuda Biological Station.

A graduate of Northwestern University, she went on to earn a BA in Interdisciplinary Studies from the University of South Carolina in 1995 at the age of 71.

Up until recently, Mrs Hintz taught courses on the art and culture of Southeast Asia at Osher Lifelong Learning Institute in USC Beaufort County.

Mrs Hintz and her husband Raymond were ardent travellers who lived overseas from 1951 before settling in South Carolina.

Aside from their time in Bermuda, they resided in North Sumatra, Indonesia; Mindanao in the Philippines; Cape Province, South Africa, and Singapore.

Fluent in Dutch, Malay, Indonesian, French and Spanish, Mrs Hintz engaged in newspaper work during her time in Singapore, as well as teaching Malay to expatriate wives, and learning South East Asian cooking from the mother of Singapore Prime Minister Lee Kuan Yew.

Mr Hintz, who died in 2008, was a former president of the American Society of Bermuda.

Married for 60 years, the couple moved to Bluffton in 1985, where Mrs Hintz was manager and a buyer for Moss Creek Traders, as well as a docent for the Bluffton Historical Society.

She was also an environmentalist, a member of the political group Lowcountry Indivisible, and a founding member of the Society of Bluffton Artists and the Guild of Bluffton Artists.

Mrs Hintz was a keen supporter of the arts, and volunteered at Bluffton’s Pluff Mudd Art Gallery, where she held a solo showing of her art to mark her 90th birthday.