It is with heavy hearts that we assemble with our memories of Betty Jean Price. After a grueling eight-week battle with her critical illness, it became evident she would not recover. Her legacy, however, shall live on in her family and friends forevermore. Her passing has stirred the hearts of so many; an outpouring of caring and love toward those she leaves behind.
Her time on earth was short. On Friday, 29 October 2021, her strength diminished as her illness progressed. What had been deemed stable critical reduced to the time is nigh. Her weary body could no longer fight the effects of her illness. She peacefully released her soul to the greater life that awaited her in the Light. She passed around 4:15pm with her husband Lew Price, and daughter, Polly {Paulette} Price, nearby.
It is the family’s desire to hold a Celebration of Life for Betty J Price on Saturday, 8 January 2022. Time and location are being finalized. Notifications will be distributed as soon as this information is solidified. Her wishes for inurnment shall be held at a private family only event.
Betty Jean Price was the firstborn daughter of Dale and Annette Walraven. She arrived 18 March 1952, in Hays, Ellis County, Kansas. Her school life was well rounded and well-traveled. Her parents relocated to Kimball, then Potter, Nebraska. In 1966, the family relocated one more time. This journey brought them to Baker, Fallon County Montana where she completed her high school education. Destiny intertwined two hearts to move forward from friends to soul mates.
Her marriage to Lew Price was held in Baker Community Church, Baker, Montana on 12 March 1983. They resided in Baker MT prior to moving to Billings, Montana where Lew attended then known as Eastern Montana College. Their journey continued to Washington state, and Mulvane, Sedgwick County Kansas. They traveled and settled in Burnsville, Dakota County Minnesota in 1996, where they raised their two children.
One son, Devin, married Sabrina, blessing Betty with Nova Jean Price, her namesake. They reside in Grand Rapids, Minnesota. A son, Cassius {pronounced Cass-ē-us} Llwellyn Price is expected to arrive in early 2022. Betty will be looking in on his progress as days grow closer to his arrival and forevermore. One daughter, Paulette Jessie Kay Price, resides in West St Paul, Minnesota.
Betty Price had an outstanding musical ability which she volunteered and prominently displayed her expertise as Director of Music for Bethel 85, the Job’s Daughters group attended by her daughter. She also played piano in her church, New Spirit UCC, Savage, Minnesota.
Her creativity extended beyond music. She received her Associate Degree in Graphic Design where her talents were shared as a free lance artist. Her artistic prowess and passion for photography was unmistakable. She produced remarkable photos of areas visited during their vacations. She also documented weddings and Bethel 85 events, to name a few, when asked to assist.
Most recently she touched the hearts and lives of employees and customers in the Custom Blinds and Drapes of JC Penney, Burnsville, Minnesota. Customers would ask for her, and, if unavailable, would return only when she was working.
An angel now resides in heaven with the loved ones who were awaiting her arrival, including her dogs who crossed the rainbow bridge before her. She is survived outside her immediate family by her sister, Deborah (Walraven) Wenger of Oconomowoc, Waukesha County Wisconsin. There are ten nieces and nephews and fourteen grandnieces and grandnephews that feel the impact for her passing.
Love and well-wishes reverberate through the scores of messages to Lew and Betty’s family.
… and, of course, the lives of friends she touched during her lifetime shall fondly speak her name, remembering her kind and loving heart.
By ~ Deborah Walraven Wenger
Arrangements are in the care of Cremation Society of Minnesota.