Betty L. Ooten

Funeral service will be held 12pm Thursday, October 29, 2026, at the Swartz Funeral Home, 1225 West Hill Road, Flint,

Pastor Sarah LaRose-Nettell officiating.

Visitation 4-8pm Wednesday at the funeral home. A VFW Auxiliary Memorial Service will be held 7pm Wednesday evening.

Burial in Great Lakes National Cemetery on Monday, November 2, 2026 at 10:30am. 

Betty was born in Holden, West Virginia on May 21, 1943. On July 22, 1961, she married Tommy Ooten in Whitman, West Virginia. Betty was the 1996-97 Auxiliary Department President to the Veterans of Foreign Wars of Michigan and Life member of Auxiliary to VFW Post #822. She spent many years volunteering for the many different Auxiliary programs and events at the Post. For many years she worked for Greenley’s Service Department in Flint dispatching service calls and went on to work for Action TV.

Surviving are daughters, Terrie (Paul) DeClercq and Patty (Brent) Hudson;

She was a wonderful Nana to Grandchildren, Brandon DeClercq, Nichole Shaver, Kat Eckerle, Mandy Stimson and Stephanie Shaver;

Great-grandchildren, Joseph West, Claire Stimson, Miley Stimson, Bennett DeClercq, Schylar DeClercq, Ryland DeClercq, Peyton Eckerle, Jordyn Stimson, Gunnar Ballos, Ezekiel DeClercq and Remie DeClercq

She was preceded in death by her husband, Tommy and daughter, Pamela Stuart.