The funeral for Betty Imogene Whitney, age 82, of Enid will be held at 10:00 A.M. Saturday, January 2, 2010, at Emmanuel Baptist Church with Rev. Wade Burleson and Rev. Brad Jurkovich officiating.  Burial will be at 2:00 P.M. in the Ferguson Cemetery, in Ferguson, Kansas with arrangements by Anderson-Burris Funeral Home. 

    She was born to Carter Thurston and Dora Augusta (Lambke) Jones on January 27, 1927 in Waldron, Kansas and died on Tuesday, December 29, 2009 in Enid at Golden Oaks Retirement Center.

    Betty graduated from Spring Township High School.  On August 27, 1945 she married Joe Elmer Whitney at Grandpa Dorsett’s house in rural Waldron, Kansas.   She was an active member of Community Baptist Church in Hazelton, KS, First Baptist Church in Pryor, and Emmanuel Baptist Church in Enid.  She worked as a bookkeeper at the Farmers Coop, at Walmart, and The American Greeting Card Company, but Betty’s favorite job was being a wife, mother, grandmother, and homemaker. 

     Betty is survived by her husband Joe of the home; two sons Joe Carter Whitney and wife Kathy of Lubbock, TX, and Jerry K. Whitney and wife Teresa of Enid; three grandchildren Stephanie Jurkovich and husband Brad, Brooke Green and husband David, and Dustin Whitney; four great grandchildren Cassidy, Carter, Caroline, and Catherine; and one sister Dorine Cutright of Byron, Ok.

      She was preceded in death by her parents Dora and Carter Jones, four brothers Floyd Jones, Rollie Jones, Carl Jones, and Lawrence Jones, and three sisters Mina Dautel, Helen Jones, and Neva Jean Loeser.

      Memorials may be made through the funeral home to Emmanuel Baptist Church Mission Fund.