Bette I. Stoddard

FLASHER -- Bette I. Stoddard, 71, Flasher, died June 28, 2000, in a Scottsbluff, Neb. hospital. Services will be held at 2 p.m. MDT Wednesday at American Lutheran Church, Flasher, with the Rev. Dale Nabben officiating. There will be a private service for the family only to scatter her ashes on the Banning family ranch.

Bette was born March 30, 1929, on the Banning family ranch, the daughter of Raymond M. and Mabel (Rockstad) Banning. She married Robert E. Stoddard in 1948 and had one child, Gary. She moved to California where she married Otto Sinclair and her children, Scott, Jill, Tracy and Toby were born there. In 1969 she moved back to Flasher and remarried Robert Stoddard, and they lived on their farm outside of Flasher. During her life, Bette enjoyed many different occupations and in particular she loved to go to auction sales and collect antiques. Bette really loved her animals and she raised Boston Terriers for a number of years. Bette was a very unique person who will be greatly missed by her family and friends.

Bette is survived by her five children, Gary Stoddard, Gering, Neb., Scott Sinclair and his wife, Wendy, Phoenix, Jill (Sinclair) Gaskins and her husband, Art, Castro Valley, Calif., Tracy Sinclair, Pomona, Calif., and Toby Thompson, Gering; seven grandchildren; and four great-grandchildren.

She was preceded in death by her husbands, Robert Stoddard and Otto Sinclair; her brother, Raymond, Jr.; and her parents, Raymond M. and Mabel Banning.

In lieu of flowers, please send donations to the American Cancer Society.