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Betty Lee Smith Peery

Female 1925 - 1991  (65 years)


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  • Name Betty Lee Smith Peery 
    Born 7 Nov 1925  Kansas City, Jackson County, Missouri Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Gender Female 
    Died 11 Apr 1991  Topeka, Shawnee County, Kansas Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Cremated Cremated Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Person ID I5747  Rossville
    Last Modified 9 Dec 2019 

    Father Samuel N Smith,   b. 1883,   d. 1962  (Age 79 years) 
    Mother Ethel L Spurgin Beck Smith,   b. 1900,   d. 1942  (Age 42 years) 
    Notes 
    • Not sure if Ethel is Harold, Lloyd, and Thomas's mother. Harold and Lloyd are both referred to as step-brothers in Wanda Kinzel's obituary on findagrave.com

      10/27/2017 ALO
    Family ID F5463  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family Jason U Peery,   d. 1979 
    Married 25 Apr 1942  Texas Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Children 
    +1. Mary Wanda Peery Stubbs Love,   b. 22 Feb 1944, Beaumont, Jefferson County, Texas Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 2 Mar 2019  (Age 75 years)
     2. Floyd Peery
     3. Thomas (Mack) Peery
     4. James Peery
    Last Modified 19 May 2019 20:49:49 
    Family ID F5465  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  • Documents
    Obituary- Peery, Betty
    Obituary- Peery, Betty

    Mrs. Betty Lee Peery
    ROSSVILLE — Mrs. Betty Lee Peery, 65, Rossville, died Thursday, April 11, 1991, at a Topeka hospital.

    She was born Nov. 7, 1925, in Kansas City, Mo., the daughter of Samuel and Ethel Beck Smith. She and her husband lived in Texas, Arkansas and California before she moved to the. Rossville community about 10 years ago.

    Mrs. Peery was a member of Levick-Barrett Unit No. 282 of the American Legion Auxiliary in Wetmore.

    She was married to Jason U. Peery April 25, 1942, in Texas. He died in 1979.

    Survivors include a daughter, Wanda Love, Wetmore; three sons, Floyd Peery, Hopland, Calif., Thomas Peery, Ethel, Wash., and James Peery, La Grange, Ga.; five sisters, Vera Drake, St. Joseph, Mo., Wanda Kinzel, Kansas City, Kan., Luella McConnell and Phyllis Marney, both of Rossville, and Neva Padgett, Topeka; three brothers, Harold Smith, in Indiana, Lloyd Smith, Denver, Colo., and Thomas Smith, Topeka; nine grandchildren; and three great-grandchildren.

    Services will be at 10 a.m. Monday at Verschelden Funeral Home in St. Marys. Cremation is planned. Mrs. Peery will lie in state after 9 a m. Sunday at the funeral home where relatives and friends will meet from 2 until 3 p.m. Sunday.

    Memorial contributions may be made to American Heart Association.