Betty Jo (Wilbanks) Gaddis, of Tyler, TX, after a lengthy illness, joined her Heavenly Father on October 26, 2020, just eight hours prior to reaching her seventy-third birthday. She was born in Monroe, LA on October 27, 1947 and through out her life was known to all as “BJ”. She attended West Monroe High School, graduated from South Arkansas University in El Dorado, AR with a degree in Radiology, and finished with honors from St. Luke’s School of Nuclear Medicine in Kansas City, MO, receiving the Mallinckrodt Institute of Radiology award for outstanding student. During her career as a Nuclear Medicine Technologist she worked at Union Medical Center in El Dorado, AR; St. Michael Hospital in Texarkana, TX; St. Francis Medical Center in Monroe, LA; and East Texas Medical Center in Jacksonville, TX.
Betty was preceded in death by her parents, J.T. and Bethel Dora (Schanks) Wilbanks; and her sister Martha Ann Spillers Schu.
She is survived by her husband of thirty-nine years, Thomas Larry Gaddis, III; her siblings, Randy Wlbanks (Glenda) , Bertha Culbertson (Robert) , Jack Wilbanks (Linda), Debbie McKnight (Jimmy), and a host of nieces, nephews and special cousin Vicki Lynn Crew.
Due to the current pandemic, a private memorial service will be held at an undetermined future date.
Betty loved her dogs. Especially her Lhasa Apso (Yuli) who she had for over 18 years. The family asks that any donations be made to the no-kill animal rescue shelter Pets Fur People, 1823 County Road 386, Tyler, TX 75708 · (903) 597-2471.
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