BARKER, BETTY SUE - Eastland County, Texas | BETTY SUE BARKER - Texas Gravestone Photos

Betty Sue BARKER

Ames Family Cemetery
Eastland County,
Texas

October 20, 1930 - December 15, 2006
*Obituary
BETTY SUE AMES BROWN passed away on December 15, 2006 in Fort Worth, Texas. Gravesite services were in Ames Cemetery in Ranger, Texas. Betty Sue was born in Ranger on October 20, 1930 to James Becton Ames, Sr. and Frona Carr Ames. She graduated from both Ranger High School (1947) and
Ranger Junior College (1949) and attended the University of Texas in Austin. She took pride in her first job in Fort Worth with Bache & Company, a member of the New York Stock Exchange, where she was secretary to the branch manager. At the time it was located in Fort Worth's tallest building, the Fair building. She was a 35 year employee of Southwestern Petroleum Corporation (SWEPCO), where for 20 years she was personal secretary to W.R. Pedin, vice-president of purchasing. She was married to Bill Barker and Bill Brown, and by each marriage had two children.

She was preceded in death by two great-grandchildren, Tristan Don Yancey and Emily Nicole Johnson, her parents J.B., Sr. and Frona Ames, a sister DorisRice Garding and a brother Lt. J.B Ames, Jr.

She is survived by two sons Bruce Barker of Bowie, Phillip Brown of Fort Worth, two daughters Doris Douglass of Eudora Kansas and Regina Muscara of Decatur Texas, eleven grandchildren, Michelle, John, Julie, Christy, Wendy, Lacey, Cody, Brittany, Nicholas, Nicole, and James, and six great-grandchildren Justin, Martez, Abby, Hannah, Johnathon, and Adam. Also surviving are two nephews Mike Herrington of Fort Worth and Edd Herrington of Irving.

Grave and cemetery photos were taken by Charlie Hardy

Contributed on 11/1/14

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Submitted: 11/1/14 • Approved: 11/1/14 • Last Updated: 3/25/18 • R34652-G34652-S3

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