Betty Fern Honey

Betty Fern Honey (nee Foster) passed away at her home at the age of 100. Beloved wife for 59 years to the late Gerald Honey, devoted mother to Carolie (Mike) Owens, Jerry (Linda) Honey, the late Jon (Beverley) Honey, Jay (Tammy) Honey; grandmother of Jason (Kelly), Ben (Stephanie), Erica (Ryan), Jeremy, Carolie (Doug), Jarrod (Madeleine), Justin (Lexie), Jacob (Jessie), Grace, and Rachael (Jon); great-grandmother of Sadie, Brendan, Cooper, Max, Kelly, Fiona, Devin, Kincaid, Regan, Tori, Carter, Kayla, Wyatt, Jonas, and Jensen.

Betty was born in Lowery City, Missouri, to Walter and Nelle Foster. She was in the middle of 6 children - Charles, Dorothy, Maxine, and two surviving brothers, Robert and Paul. Betty graduated from Weaubleau HS in 1942, Southwest Baptist College in 1943, and began teaching a few days later at the age of 18. She graduated from Southwest Missouri State in 1951 alongside her brothers, Bob and Charles, and her husband, Gerald.

Notable events in her life include teaching for 32 years with most of her career at Benton School in St. Charles, where she was teacher of the year and proudly taught in one of the first integrated classrooms in America. Betty and Gerald were charter members of Ridgecrest Baptist Church where she was a Sunday school teacher for decades. Her grandson, Jason, said it best - "She knew how to make everyone feel special." Not long before she passed she shared her favorite quote by Holmes - "And if I should live to be the last leaf on the tree, in the spring, let them smile, as I do now, at the old forsaken bough, where I cling."

Memorials may be made in Betty's name to Wheels for the World and First Baptist St. Charles.