Betty Padgett Thomas went to make music with the angels on Saturday February 18, 2017. Service: 1 pm Thursday February 23, 2017 at South Park Baptist Church 7201 Cowley Road, Fort Worth TX 76033. Visitation: noon to 1 pm Thursday at the church. Interment to take place at Laurel Land Funeral Memorial Park. Betty was born and raised in Tarrant County. She worked as a secretary in the Fort Worth area for Thirty years following graduation from Arlington Heights High School. Betty's great loves were Jesus Christ, her sons, grandsons, her adopted girls, her dogs, and music- in that order. Betty has requested that everyone wear bright colors and celebrate her memorial with a joyful, musical, " holy hootenanny". She is preceded in death to heaven by her parents, Louise and Lenzy Padgett; and by husbands Charles Crider, and Donald Thomas. Succeeded by: Sons, Charles Crider Jr. and David C. Thomas; grandsons, Tony, Charles III, and Bryce Crider; sisters, Wanda Patterson and husband Butch, and Robbie Yarborough and husband Joe; brother, Kenneth Padgett and wife Blanca; 11 great- grandchildren, and 13 nieces and nephews.