Betty (Jean) Tolar Landers, age 86, passed away Monday, June 20, 2022 at her home in Paris due to heart issues. Bright-Holland Funeral Home has scheduled a visitation for 6-8 pm Thursday, June 23, 2022 at the funeral home with services at 10 AM Friday, June 24, 2022 also at the funeral home with Rev. Beverly Olsen as officiant. Interment will follow in Restland Cemetery in Roxton. Betty was born to Lonnie and Jewel Greer Tolar on the Wright Plantation in Red River County, Texas on January 10, 1936. Her brother, Nolan, was 3 years old and he remembers it being a very cold, snowy and icy day when the doctor rode up to the house on his horse. Betty graduated from Detroit High School in 1954. She worked for Community Public Service for 2 years and then "The Highway Department" (TxDOT) for 32 years. After retiring in 1993, she served on the Lamar County Child Welfare Board and the Children's Advocacy Board. In the past few years she has enjoyed her neighborhood coffee group, visiting with friends, having lunch with the retired group and spending many endless hours talking, texting, laughing and giggling with her very dear friend of 80+ years, Nancy Gaston Rising, and entertaining great-grandson, Derek Dash. Betty was preceded in death by her parents; bonus-father, Travis Haley; husband, Johnny B. Brown in 1959; and husband, Gill Landers, Jr. in 2000; son-in-law, Richard T. Gilmer; granddaughter, Kara Gilmer; brothers, Nolan Tolar and Roland Tolar; bonus siblings, Travis Haley, Jr., Connie Leubke, and Charles Haley and wife Jane; and her loving dog, Gracie. Betty is survived by daughters, Beth Brown Gilmer of Paris and Eugenia Landers of Terrell; her granddaughter, Nancy Gilmer Dingman and husband Dillon; great-grandson, Derek Dash Dingman; a bonus sibling, Douglas Haley and wife Gaye; and her loving dog, Lucy; as well many nieces, nephews, cousins and a host of special friends. Should you so desire, memorials may be made to Calvary United Methodist Church or Baby Gunn's Animal Rescue.
