Betty L. Baxter, 73, Tippecanoe, passed away at 1:19 p.m. Monday, April 9, 2018, at home. She peacefully fell asleep with her family at her side.
Betty was born July 8, 1944, in South Bend. She was the daughter of Warren and Mary LaRue Davis.
Betty lived most of her life in the area. She graduated from Triton High School High. She worked at Stauffer Chemical, Bremen; Da-Lite Screen, Warsaw; and R.R. Donnelley, where she retired after 30 years as a clerk.
Betty enjoyed flowers, gardening, painting oil pictures, “shopping,” loved animals and her dog and cats. Betty was a member of the Bourbon American Legion Auxiliary. She will be missed by many.
On April 30, 1961, she married Fearol Baxter in Tippecanoe at the Congregational Christian Church.
Survivors include her loving husband, Fearol; daughters: April Sunday Baxter, Claypool, and Crystal Rose Baxter-Uyhelji (and husband Robert), Plymouth; three grandchildren: Sabrina (Lacie) Adams, Summer Uyhelji and Spencer Uyhelji; two great-grandchildren, Lexus and Raven Adams; and her sister, Donna Mae Mercer, Florida.
She was preceded in death by her parents.
The family will receive friends on Saturday, April 14, 2018, from 11:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. in Deaton-Clemens Funeral Home, 115 S. Main St., Bourbon.
Funeral services will follow at 2:30 p.m. in the funeral home with Chaplin Denise Gilbert, of Marshall County Hospice, officiating. Burial will follow in Tippecanoe Cemetery.
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The family requests memorial contributions be made in her memory to: Grace Outreach Fellowship Church, 18575 Ind. 331 Tippecanoe, IN 46570; Marshall County Hospice, 112 S. Center St. Plymouth, IN 46563; or Riverview Community Church, 3780 Ind. 110, Tippecanoe, IN 46570.
Deaton Clemens Funeral Home is privileged to be entrusted in arranging the services.
