Betty Jean Suber, age 80, of Mountain House, California , died
June 13, 2017
in Mountain House, California,
Celebration Service
Thursday,
June 22, 2017 @
11:00 a.m.
Mt. Lebanon 7th Day Adventist Church
4298 Meyers Lane / Waco, Texas 76705
Pastor Billy Wright, Officiating
Pastor O.J. Jackson, Eulogist
Interment in Doris Miller Memorial Park, Waco, TX.
Final arrangements made by Emanuel Funeral Home - Palestine, 1721 W. Oak Street, Palestine, TX 75801
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Brief Biographical Sketch of
Betty Jean Ruth Suber
Betty Jean Ruth Suber was born on
August 6, 1936
in Mead, Oklahoma to Dillard Murray Sr. and Mary Ellen Burnett Ruth. She was the fourth of ten children.
Betty was raised in Mead, Oklahoma and Colbert Oklahoma, she attended school at Shoemake School in Colbert, Oklahoma.
She married Clarence Ruff in 1955. Betty later married John R. Suber in 1968 the man she referred to as "my real husband, the one that God sent".
Betty accepted Christ as a child and joined Colbert United Methodist Church. She moved to Waco, Texas in 1959 where she joined Mt. Zion CME Church. In 1966 Betty moved to Sacramento, Ca. where she became a member of Kyles Temple AME Zion Church and later joined the Capitol City 7th Day Adventist Church. After retiring, Betty and John moved back to Waco in 1992 to take care of her mother. She then joined the Mt. Lebanon 7th Day Adventist Church. In 2008, after John passed, Betty moved to Mountain House, CA. to live with her daughter and her husband where she became a member of Tracy 7th Day Adventist Church. She was very active in every church she attended, doing whatever was asked of her. She sang in the choir, was Women's Day speaker, and active in Conference Studies. No matter where Betty lived or what she did, she always put the Lord first and taught her family to do the same.
She was a member of Sacramento Bowling League from 1979 - 1991; Betty enjoyed taking cross country trips with her husband and grandkids in the motor home; she also enjoyed camping.
Betty was a house cleaner and nanny until 1991.
On
June 13, 2017
in Mountain House, California, Betty left this earth on the Wings of Angels. She was preceded in death by her parents, Dillard and Mary Ruth; two brothers, Dillard Murray Ruth, Jr., Emery James Ruth.
Loving survivors include: daughter, Sharon Kay Ruff Hope (Capus, Jr.), Mountain House, California; two brothers, Joe Henry (Electra) Ruth of Bedford Heights, Ohio, Omega (Deborah) Ruth of Jacksonville, Florida; five sisters, Dorothy Harris of Oklahoma City, Ok, Ella Fay Woods of Phoenix, AZ, Thelma Mitchell of Tulsa, OK, Joanne (Obie) Greenleaf of Denison, Texas and Sandra Burns of Jacksonville, Florida; two grandchildren, Capus Hope III and Briana Zaporta; four great grandchildren, Jason Hope, Justin Hope, Sydney Zaporta and Sean Zaporta, Jr.; Uncle, James "Jack" Burnett. A host of nieces, nephews, other relatives and friends.