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Submitted: 1/17/23 • Approved: 1/18/23 • Last Updated: 1/21/23 • R1465626-G1465626-S3
Jul 29, 1925 - Mar 30, 2018
Betty Jo Malone, 92, went to be with her Heavenly Father on Good Friday, March 30, 2018. She was born on July 29, 1925, in Pottsville, Arkansas to Lee and Hazel Rackley. Betty was a compassionate and loving mother, wife, grandmother, great-grandmother and friend to all. Her sweetness and loving ways were apparent upon first meeting her and her guidance, encouragement and support of all her family is her most enduring legacy. Though she accomplished much in her life on earth, she was most proud of her family and of her contributions to her church home of almost 60 years, Pulaski Heights United Methodist Church. She was a talented and passionate artist who loved to draw.
She was married to Cecil L. Malone for 71 years, and they traveled the world together for business and pleasure. She was happiest and most content, however, at home surrounded by her family and her art.
She is preceded in death by her parents, her brother Carroll, her step-mother Zerle Rackley and her daughter Cecilia Kelly. She is survived by her husband, her children, Linda (Buddy) Pledger. Teresa (Mike) Bechtel, and Brenda (Kenny) Breckling; her grandchildren, George (Meme) Toney, Tabatha Toney, Kelly (Matt) Weeks, Matt (Brandy) Pledger, Tonya Smith, Jonathan (Christina) Bechtel, Amanda Breckling, and Stephanie (Chris) Brown; and her great-grandchildren, Savannah and Forest Pledger, Avery and Hayden Weeks, Mason and Josie Brown and Madeline Bechtel.
Contributed on 1/17/23 by eagle12953
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