Weaver – Funeral services for Mrs. Betty Jean Easterwood, 85, will be Sunday, March 25, 2018 at 3 p.m. at Chapel Hill Funeral Home with burial to follow at Maple Grove Cemetery. The family will receive friends from 1:30 p.m. until service time at the funeral home.
Mrs. Easterwood passed on Tuesday, March 20, 2018 at NHC in Anniston.
Mrs. Easterwood is survived by her children, John Easterwood and wife Pam, Carol McAleer and partner Derek Brockhoff, Barbara Smith and husband Curry, Alison Dagnan and husband John, and Alan Easterwood and wife Jennifer; grandchildren, David Easterwood and wife Angela, Sarah Easterwood and fiancé Steve Van Zee, Rebecca Wysocki and husband Steve, Molly McAleer, Andrew Smith, Morgan Easterwood, Mary Kate Easterwood, Mallory Easterwood, Maddox Easterwood, Thomas Dagnan, and Noah Dagnan; great-grandchildren, Jesse Easterwood, Piper Easterwood, Lucy Easterwood.
Mrs. Easterwood was preceeded in death by her husband, Jesse Easterwood; parents, Thomas and Ollie Ferguson; sisters, Mildred Calvert, Dorothy Boutwell and Faye Ferguson; brother, Thomas Ferguson.
Mrs. Easterwood was born and lived near Troy Alabama. After WW II Betty met Jesse Easterwood, an Army sergeant, near Ft. Rucker and in due time they were married.
Army life took them to Auschaffenburg, Germany; Fort Benning, Georgia; Boston, Massachusetts; Cullman, Alabama while Jesse was in Vietnam then Korea; Fort McClellan, Alabama; and finally to Weaver, Alabama where the family lived at the time of Jesse’s retirement.
As an Army wife, Betty was a temporary single parent during Jesse’s unaccompanied assignments to Vietnam in 1965 and 1973 and to South Korea in 1968. She moved the family from other places to Cullman, AL each time and cared for all of the family’s affairs. She was instrumental as an early leader in establishing what became the Army Community Services, an organization that attends to various needs of Army families. She was an active member of the Protestant Women of the Chapel (PWOC) and an American Red Cross volunteer. Betty was a constant caregiver to her close friends and strangers alike.
Betty and Jesse became active members of Silver Chapel at Fort McClellan. They could be found there every Sunday along with their group of friends. Many of those friendships continue to this day. Betty later became a member of the First Baptist Church of Weaver where served with members of the Golden Circle Sunday School class.
In her later years, Betty moved from her home in Weaver to assisted living, then to nursing care. Through these many changes she managed to maintain her gentle, cheery, and sometimes comic disposition. As her health steadily declined, she continued to enjoy the company of her children, grandchildren, and friends.
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