Betty R. Mitchell
Betty Ruth Mitchell, 82, of Greenville, died Sunday, October 12, 2014, at Briarcliff Health Center. Funeral services will be 10:00 AM, Thursday, October 16, 2014 at Coker-Mathews Funeral Home Chapel with Dr. John T. Tate and Rev. Scott Mitchell officiating. Interment will be in Memoryland Memorial Park. Visitation will be 6:00 PM to 8:00 PM Wednesday at the funeral home.
Born in Rhea Mills, Texas on November 9, 1931, Betty was the daughter of John Reed and Adell McQueary Reed. She married Glenn C. Mitchell on June 19, 1949 in McKinney. She was retired from Explorer Pipeline as District Clerk. She was a member of Central Christian Church.
Survivors include her husband, Glenn C. Mitchell of Greenville; sons, Butch Mitchell and wife, Gloria and Buddy Mitchell and wife, Viki, both of Greenville; daughter, Kathy deHaas and husband, Robert of Boulder, Colorado; brothers, J. C. Reed and wife, Donna of McKinney and Bennie Reed and wife, Marcia of McKinney; sister, Pat Burke and husband, Harold of Allen; grandchildren, Scott Mitchell and wife Bonnie of Bethlehem, PA, Kyle Mitchell of McKinney, Jade deHaas of Boulder, CO, Kristy deHaas of Greenville and Leslie deHaas of Boulder, CO; great-grandchildren, Lucy Grace Mitchell of Bethlehem, PA, Eli Mitchell of Bethlehem, PA and Harlow deHaas of Boulder, CO: and several nieces and nephews. She was preceded in death by her parents, grandson, John Matthew Mitchell; nephew, Corey Reed and niece, Julie Burke Hart.
Pallbearers will be Robert deHaas, Scott Mitchell, Kyle Mitchell, Harold Burke, Dickie Mitchell, Greg Coats, Russell Carney and John Davis.
The family requests memorials be made to Parkinson’s Disease Foundation, Inc., 1359 Broadway, Suite 1509, New York City, New York 10018