Betty J. Carpenter Harmon

Birth

16 Jun 1919

Campbell, Franklin County, Nebraska, USA

Death

11 Oct 2013 (aged 94)

McCook, Red Willow County, Nebraska, USA

Burial

Memorial Park Cemetery

McCook, Red Willow County, Nebraska, USA

 

Betty J. (Carpenter) Harmon passed away Friday, October 11, 2013, at Hillcrest Nursing Home, McCook, Nebraska. Betty was born on June 16, 1919 at Campbell, Nebraska to Tarlington Bates and Minnie Blanche (Harvey) Carpenter.

When Betty was just a baby her mother was injured in an accident, so Betty went to stay with her Grandmother Harvey and Great Grandfather Meyers on a farm near Hadam, Kansas while her mother recuperated. Great Grandfather Meyers agreed to this but he said she would have to stay with them until he died. Great Grandfather Meyers was 87 at that time and he lived to be 96 years old, so Betty was 9 years old before she moved back with her family who by then had moved to McCook, Nebraska.

Betty lived the remainder of her life in McCook, Nebraska. She graduated from McCook (NE.) High School in 1937. During her school years Betty worked at the Olympia and the Fox Theatre, after graduation she worked as a bookkeeper for Firestone Tire Co.

Betty married Lewis A. (Bud) Harmon on August 20, 1938 in Boulder Colorado. To this union seven children were born; Linda, Mike, Tracy, Kirby, Jean, Ann and Teresa.

For the remainder of her life, Betty, was Bud's partner in many and varied business ventures. They owned restaurants, several neighborhood grocery stores, a restaurant supply business and eventually turned all their energy into manufacturing Liquid Malt, Gobs of Glob, Sizzle Seeds, Liquid Tea base and Cinnamon Toothpicks. Betty was the pencil pusher behind the man with the ideas and they made an incredible team.

Betty was a member of St. Alban's Episcopal Church, McCook, Nebraska and active in women's organizations for many years. She was an avid Bridge player and always played cards with her children and grandchildren.

Preceding Betty in death by: husband, Lewis "Bud" Harmon; parents; son, Tracy Harmon; daughters, Linda Lee (Harmon) Boone and Kirby and Ann Harmon; granddaughters, Christine and Melissa; brothers, Robert (Iris), George (Margaret) and Jerome (Janice) Carpenter; sisters, Twilda (Walt) Aman and Mary (Leonard) Paulson.

Betty is survived by: son, Michael (Janice) Harmon of McCook, Nebraska; daughters, Jean (Terry) Hallowell of McCook, Nebraska and Teresa Stanfield of Fort Worth, Texas; grandsons, Jeff, Scott and Brian Boone, Gabriel Harmon, Amos and Zachary McPherson, Ryan and Tye Hallowell and Andrew Davis; granddaughters, Heather Udayan, Kamas Harmon, Chavalan Carpenter, Cassandra Lashley and Elizabeth Ann Davis; 21 great grandchildren and a host of family and friends.

Inurnment was in Memorial Park Cemetery, McCook, Nebraska.