Elizabeth B Spray

Elizabeth “Betty” Buttermore Spray passed away peacefully in her sleep on February 11, 2012 a month before her 94th birthday. A long-time Beavercreek resident, Betty Spray had been active with St. Andrew United Methodist Church of Beavercreek, Greene County Historical Society, Beavercreek High band parents association, scouting, and was a Paul Harris Fellow. Betty Spray was married for sixty-seven years to the late Wayne Spray (LtCol USAF). She was born in Connellsville, Pennsylvania and graduated from Allegheny College, after which she taught high school in Pensylvania. Betty loved music, gardening, animals (especially dogs), birds, and genealogy. She was a GS camp counselor; lived 10 places around the USA (and Puerto Rico); she attended International Rotary meetings; and traveled from the Panama Canal to Nome, Alaska, and from Scotland to Japan. She was the eldest child of Lyell Loomis Buttermore and Anna Rebecca Myers of Connellsville, and was preceded in death by her brothers Lyell and Grant Buttermore, daughter Kathleen Spray and son-in-law Gary Embler. Betty is survived by her three children: Elwin and his wife, Ivy of Beavercreek, Ohio, and their daughters Jennifer and Elizabeth; daughter Elaine Spray of Taos, New Mexico, and her daughters Katherine and Rebecca Embler; and son Carl Spray of Colorado Springs, Colorado. A celebration of her life will be held on Friday, February 24th 2012, at St. Andrew UMC in Beavercreek; visitation will be from 2 p.m. with a memorial service at 4 p.m. Memorial gifts may be made to the Betty Spray Memorial at St. Andrew UMC, 350 North Fairfield Road, Beavercreek, Ohio 45430.