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Submitted: 2/11/23 • Approved: 2/12/23 • Last Updated: 2/15/23 • R1471118-G1471117-S3
Jan 9, 1933 - Feb 27, 2022
Betty Jean Akin Hill went to her Heavenly reward and was reunited with her beloved daughter Jean Beth on Feb. 27, 2022. Betty was born in Floyd, Ark., on Jan. 9, 1933, to Guy and Ramah Lee Walker Akin.
She attended school in Floyd and graduated from Beebe High School, where she was a member of the schools basketball team. She graduated as a registered nurse from Baptist Hospital Nursing School in 1953 and married Dalton Hill on Christmas day that same year.
Betty is preceded in death by her parents, her brother, Charles Edward Akin, her daughter Jean Beth, and her ex-husband. Survivors include; her cousin, Johnnie Nell Thomas and her sons Dan Thomas (Susan), J. R. Thomas (Natalie) and Joey Thomas and their families; her nephew, Ronnie Akin; her sister-in-law, Wanda Price, and her children Rhonda Shelman (Larry), Barry Sproul (Julie) and their families; and her son-in law Charles Galloway, his siblings and children and their families.
Contributed on 2/11/23 by eagle12953
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