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Bettye Howard Cannon

Birth
Estacado, Crosby County, Texas, USA
Death
5 Sep 2011 (aged 85)
Texas, USA
Burial
Plainview, Hale County, Texas, USA Add to Map
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Bettye Howard Cannon passed peacefully from this life on Monday, Sept. 5, 2011. She was born in Estacada, Texas, on March 30, 1926, to A.A. Howard and Rose Brian Howard.

She grew up in Olton, Texas, and graduated from Olton High School, then attended Texas Tech. She was married on Sept. 29, 1946, to James Cannon of Cotton Center, Texas. James and Betty were pioneers in irrigation farming in the Panhandle. They owned farms in Hale, Floyd, Swisher and Briscoe counties, and another in Boise City, Okla.

Betty leaves behind her only daughter, Sharon, and her husband, Rex Jobe, of Dallas; two grandchildren, Lauren Jobe Coyle and her husband, John, of Chapel Hill, N.C., and Reagan Jobe and his wife, Courtney, of Dallas. Bettye's greatest joys were her great-grandchildren, Leah Grace and David James Coyle.

At her request there will not be a memorial. Arrangements are by Sparkman Hillcrest Funeral Home of Dallas.


Published in Plainview Daily Herald from September 7 to September 8, 2011
Bettye Howard Cannon passed peacefully from this life on Monday, Sept. 5, 2011. She was born in Estacada, Texas, on March 30, 1926, to A.A. Howard and Rose Brian Howard.

She grew up in Olton, Texas, and graduated from Olton High School, then attended Texas Tech. She was married on Sept. 29, 1946, to James Cannon of Cotton Center, Texas. James and Betty were pioneers in irrigation farming in the Panhandle. They owned farms in Hale, Floyd, Swisher and Briscoe counties, and another in Boise City, Okla.

Betty leaves behind her only daughter, Sharon, and her husband, Rex Jobe, of Dallas; two grandchildren, Lauren Jobe Coyle and her husband, John, of Chapel Hill, N.C., and Reagan Jobe and his wife, Courtney, of Dallas. Bettye's greatest joys were her great-grandchildren, Leah Grace and David James Coyle.

At her request there will not be a memorial. Arrangements are by Sparkman Hillcrest Funeral Home of Dallas.


Published in Plainview Daily Herald from September 7 to September 8, 2011


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