Funeral services will be 11am on Monday, October 19, 2015, at St. Maria Goretti Catholic Church. Entombment will follow at Moore Memorial Gardens.
Betty was born December 29, 1929 in Wakefield, Kansas. After Business College in Salina, Kansas she moved to Manhattan where she met her husband while he was getting his degree at Kansas State University. They were married in 1950 and moved to Wichita, Kansas, where both were employed at Beech Aircraft. Their two children were born in Wichita before moving to Denver, Colorado in 1958. After living there 10 years, they moved to Arlington in 1968 where she worked and eventually retired from Lockheed Martin.
Betty was a member of St. Maria Goretti Catholic Church for 45+ years. She was also a member of the Arlington Memorial Hospital Auxiliary, St. Maria Goretti Leisure Club, Arlington's Woman's Club, Suburban Woman's Club, and other social bridge clubs. She was preceded in death by her husband of 53 years, John McBride, and her brother Marvin Cowell of Kansas.
Her gentle and supportive spirit will be missed by her survivors; a son, Mike McBride of Houston, daughter, Debby Ligon, and son-in-law, Jim Ligon of Evergreen CO, and nieces Susan Warner and Sandy Hunt of Kansas.
In lieu of flowers, contributions can be made in her memory to St. Maria Goretti: Building Fund.
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