Thursday 28th March 2024

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Betty Jean Simmons, 84, of rural Sweet Springs, MO, died Saturday, June 20, 2020.
Funeral services will be held at 10:30 a.m. Tuesday, June 23, at Campbell-Lewis Chapel in Marshall. Visitation will be one hour prior to the service at the funeral home where social distancing will be observed and masks are encouraged.  Burial will follow Tuesday’s service at Sunset Gardens Cemetery.  Memorials are suggested to Southside Assembly of God and an online guestbook is available at www.campbell-lewis.com
In addition to her husband of 67 years, Leonard; she is survived by four children: Betty Arlene Williams (Larry), Ronnie Simmons (Renee), Loretta “Retta” Kelz (Scott), all of rural Sweet Springs and Pamela Brandt (Rick) of rural Versailles; many grandchildren, great-grandchildren and great-great-grandchildren; one brother, Jimmie Dale Hutchison of Sweet Springs; three sisters, Virginia Newell of Gravette, Ark., Mary Peeples and Doris Simmons (Gale), both of Sweet Springs; as well as many nieces, nephews and other extended family that she loved so much.
Betty was preceded in death by her parents, Dorsey W. Hutchison and Mary Cartner Hutchison; one son, Leonard “Junior” Simmons; two sisters, Gladys Ferguson and Marilyn Sue Portwood; and one brother, Dorsey T. “Catfish” Hutchison.