Complex sentence: Her father, Samuel Murphy Bason, was the president of the Bank of Yanceyville and a Democratic member of the North Carolina State Senate; her mother, the former Martha Eliza "Mamie" Hatchett, was a homemaker.
Split into simpler sentences: Her father, Samuel Murphy Bason, was the president of the Bank of Yanceyville and a Democratic member of the North Carolina State Senate. Her mother, the former Martha Eliza "Mamie" Hatchett, was a homemaker.