Betty B. Everhart

Betty B. Everhart, born Beatrice Wagner in Arcadia, OH, to Alfred B. and Ida Amanda Reidel Wagner. Upon the death of her mother in 1936, Betty was welcomed into the home of her foster parents, Noah and Nell Eckleberry of Sycamore, OH. Betty attended Sycamore High School, class of 1944. She then attended Beauty School in Toledo, OH and became a licensed beautician. She married Donald Everhart in a ceremony at the Methodist Parsonage in Sycamore, OH and gave up her career as a beautician to become a mother and homemaker. Betty and her family were members of the EUB Church in Smithville, OH and later the Olive Branch Church near their farm in Crawford County, OH. In 1961 Betty, Don and family moved to Mesa, AZ where Betty was employed as a Teaching and Administrative Assistant with the Mesa Public Schools. She was a member of the First United Methodist Church, Mesa, AZ. She moved in 2004 to live with her son in Elizabethtown, PA. Surviving are two sons, Richard M. Everhart and his wife Lynn of Gilbert, AZ and Roger E. Everhart and his partner Andy Brines, of Elizabethtown, PA; six grandchildren, Richard Jr., Matthew, and Lorena of Gilbert, AZ, Yancey of Mesa, AZ, Elizabeth, of Seattle, WA and Nathan of Los Angeles, CA; six great-grandchildren, Duncan, Tabitha, Gavin, Gwyneth, Ellette and Adelle Everhart all of Arizona; a brother, Alfred Wagner of Upper Sandusky, OH,; two sisters, Irene Linnaberry of Rockford, IL, and Jeanice Olmstead of Bettsville, OH. She was preceded in death by two brothers, Austin Wagner and Donald Richards and two sisters, Viola Schaeffer and Florence Margraf. Relatives and friends are respectfully invited at attend Betty's Graveside Service to be held from Pleasant Ridge Cemetery, Upper Sandusky, OH on Saturday November 17, 2007 at 11am. The family requests memorial contributions be made to Hospice of Lancaster County, 685 Good Dr., PO Box 4125, Lancaster, PA 17604-4125. Arrangements by Boyer Funeral Home, Ltd., Elizabethtown, PA www.lifecelebration.com