Betty Ruth (Brown) Bundy, age 73, passed away peacefully Saturday evening, October 6, 2018. Betty battled Alzheimer’s disease for 6 years and for the past 8 months she had lived at Vista Del Lago, a memory care facility in Escondido. She was born December 21, 1944 in Dallas, Texas to Clyde and Angie Brown. In 1960, Betty was in the 10th grade at South Oak Cliff High School, when met her future husband, Don Bundy. She attended Abilene Christian University in Abilene, TX and graduated with a Home Economics Education degree in 1966. Don joined the U.S. Navy in 1965 and the two of them were married December 1966. Betty was a strong and faithful “Navy wife” for 27 years of their 52 year marriage. Together they raised their daughter Donielle and son Byron at Camp Lejeune, NC, North Little Rock, AR and in Escondido, California since 1977. She was a wonderful mother, a loving “Nana” to her six grandchildren, and a faithful Proverbs 31 kind of wife to Don for 52 years. As a favorite teacher at Hidden Valley Middle School, “Mrs. Bundy” taught approximately 16,000 Escondido students how to cook and how to sew from 1980-2010. She leaves a legacy of hand-made t-shirts, book covers, coffee cakes, pizzas, pie crusts and other sweet memories in her wake. Betty’s greatest joy came from serving others. Whether it was her family whom she adored, or even perfect strangers, she loved others and delighted in helping and serving anyone she could. Her amazing smile and sparkling blue eyes seemed to brighten and better the world around us.
Left to cherish Betty’s memory are her high school sweetheart and husband, Don, daughter Donielle and Kenny Winter of Escondido, grandsons Christian, Peyton, Elliot and Brooks Winter and her son Byron and Sharla Bundy of Temple, TX, grandson Blake and granddaughter Anna Jo Bundy, older sisters Angie McCutcheon of Dallas, TX and Juanita Gibbs of Littleton, CO and younger brother Clyde Brown of Abilene, TX.
All friends, family and former students are welcome to attend a Celebration of Life service Sunday, October 28th at 3:00pm in the Chapel at Emmanuel Faith Community Church in Escondido.
Memorial services at Miramar National Cemetery are scheduled for 10:00am Monday, October 29th.
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