Betty Jean Weston

Visitation will be from 12:00 pm to 1:00 pm Saturday, June 13, 2020 followed by a funeral service at 1:00 pm, both at Memorial Funeral Home, with Rev. Fred Leist officiating. At this time, the funeral home is limiting the occupancy of our building to 50 people due to COVID-19 restrictions. We ask for your understanding and cooperation in our efforts to keep our families and staff safe. Please be prepared to be directed by staff when you arrive for visitations and services.

Mrs. Weston was born November 21, 1927 in rural Kenoma, Missouri to Gae and Nell Sharrock. She was a 1945 graduate of Lamar High School and graduated in 1949 from St. Johns School of Nursing in Springfield, Missouri as a Registered Nurse. She married Curtis Ross Weston on June 4, 1950 at Lamar United Methodist Church in Lamar, Missouri. He preceded her in death in 2003. During their married life, they raised two children and lived in Columbia, Missouri and Destin, Florida. She worked at the University of Missouri Medical Center Neonatal Intensive Care Unit for many years. Her favorite hobby was raising and showing pug dogs, producing 34 champions. In her later years, she enjoyed playing bridge with her friends at the Barton County Senior Center in Lamar, Missouri.

Survivors include her children, Gwen Huber and husband Tom of Golden City, Missouri and Brent Weston and wife Joanne of Leesburg, Virginia; sister-in-law June Osborn of Joplin, Missouri; grandsons, Clint Huber and wife Julie of Fair Oaks, Indiana, and Ben Huber and wife Leann of Golden City, Missouri; great grandchildren Jared, Josiah, Anna, Joah, Jeremiah, Aleah, Jedediah, Justus, Adaiah, Arileigh, Cyrus and Alleluia of Fair Oaks, Indiana and Aleena, Aubrie, Silas, Elizabeth, Ester, Lydia and Simeon of Golden City, Missouri; as well as four nieces and one nephew.

She was a caring and loving mother, grandmother, and great grandmother. She will be deeply missed by all who knew and loved her.

Memorials are suggested to the Barton County Senior Center, 306 W. 11th Street, Lamar, Missouri 64759 in care of Mrs. Stormy Cuba.