
Bettie loved life and enjoyed the outdoors; working in her flowerbeds and helping anyone in need. She loved her family and spending time with her grandchildren and her pets. Bettie worked over 35 years at U.S. Motors and was very proud of her career there. She won many awards over the years and was proud to have been able to work there for so many years. She was active in the Hot Rod Club, Mena Cruizzers, Hatfield School Supper Club, and the Audubon Society. Bettie was a loving wife, mother, grandmother, sister, aunt, and friend and will be missed by all who knew her.
She is preceded in death by her parents; her brother, Richard Gilbert; sister, Joyce Gilbert; and one grandson, Patrick Raines.
Bettie is survived by her husband, Don Fretz of Hatfield; four sons and daughters-in-law, Robert and Pamela Pipkin of Mena and Thomas and Vicki Pipkin of Mena, Mark and Tanya Fretz of Mena and Teddy and Sue Fretz of Mena; two daughters and sons-in-law, Mary and Steve Raines of Valley Center, Kansas and Elizabeth and Russell Hoffman of Mena; four brothers, David Gilbert, Neil Gilbert, Mark Gilbert, and Roger Gilbert all of Mena; three sisters, Sue Stewart of Mena, Martha Gurnick of North Carolina, and Andre Gilbert of Greenwood, Arkansas; eighteen grandchildren; twenty-one great-grandchildren; three great-great grandchildren; several nieces and nephews, and a host of other relatives and friends.
A time of remembrance will be Saturday, April 18, 2015 from 1-3 P.M. at the Bowser Family Funeral Home Chapel in Mena. Cremation services have been entrusted to Bowser Family Funeral Home in Mena.
In lieu of flowers, donations may be made to Humane Society of the Ouachitas, P.O. Box 845, Mena, Arkansas 71953.
Online Guestbook: www.bowserffh.com
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