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Submitted: 8/2/21 • Approved: 8/3/21 • Last Updated: 8/6/21 • R443578-G443578-S3
1938-2014
Photo/information, courtesy of Edith Guynes Stanley
*Obituary
Betty Lou Riddle
January 28, 1938 - November 5, 2014
Betty Lou Riddle, 76, died November 5, 2014 in Amarillo. Funeral services will be 10:00 a.m. Saturday at First Baptist Church with Pastor Charlie Morgan officiating. Burial will follow at Highland Park Cemetery under the direction of Minton Chatwell Funeral Directors of Borger.
Betty was born January 28, 1938 in Elk City, OK to Finis Clifton Nance and Elsie Mae Flynn Nance. She moved to Borger from Idaho in 1954, graduated from Borger High School and then married her first husband Murle Murley who died in 1993. She married Bill Riddle December 31, 2001 in Borger and they we inseparable for the last 13 years. Spending many hours exploring the Panhandle countryside. Betty was the Treasurer of the Hutchinson County Republican Women. She volunteered much of her time to church activities. She loved her workout group of friends, spending more time drinking coffee than actually working out. She also loved to fish and shop but her biggest joy was spending time with her family. She was the rock of the family and her smile would light up any room. Her sense of humor kept life lighthearted and her love for her family was endless. Death leaves a heartache no one can heal, love leaves a memory no one can steal.
She was preceded in death by her first husband Murle Chester Murley, her parents and her sister Pat Fine.
Betty is survived by her husband Bill of Borger, her sons Cliff Murley and his wife Wendye of Borger and Skeeter Murley of Arlington, her daughter Julie German and her husband David of Lubbock, step daughters Susan Brunson and her husband Bob of Arnett, OK and Paulette Riddle of Atlanta, GA, her sister Jane Barrett of Pantego, TX, her six grandchildren Jason, Justin and his wife Mattie and Lindsay Murley, Kacie, Brayden and Blake German, she was looking forward to welcoming her first great-granddaughter in April.
Casket bearers will be Jason Murley, Justin Murley, Brayden German, Blake German, Patrick O’Neill and Matt O’Neill.
The family will receive guests at the funeral home from 5:00 until 7:00 on Friday evening.
(Published by Minton/Chatwell Funeral Directors, November 5, 2014)
Contributed on 8/2/21
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