Betty J. Fleming

Betty was born at St. Luke’s Hospital in KC, MO on July 15th, 1926 to her parents, Ed and Marguerite Morgan. Her twin brother did not survive the birth, so Betty was raised an only child. Her father was a plumber that had opened a plumbing shop called Morgan’s Supply at 33rd and Brooklyn in Kansas City, Missouri. Her family lived at the back of the shop and Betty’s first bed was a drawer in a chest of drawers.

She grew up playing on the concrete sidewalk in front of the store. She enjoyed hopscotch, jump rope and playing with paper dolls. Around 9 years old she moved with her family to a house. She attended Linwood grade school and Paseo high school. Then they moved again to Leawood, Kansas and she transferred to Shawnee Mission North high school in Overland Park, KS.

She graduated at 17 and went to work at the Veterans Administration. She was the youngest employee they had ever hired for the Filing Department. She eventually became the supervisor of four people before her father asked her to work for him at the shop.

She met her future husband at a chili supper in the basement of Christ the King Catholic church. Edward Albert Fleming went away to serve in WWII but discharged he proposed to Betty. They were married in St Ann’s Catholic Church on May 3rd, 1952. During her life Betty enjoyed playing with her son, cooking, bingo, shopping and a good chocolate milkshake.

She is survived by her only son, Edward A. Fleming Jr., his wife, Cathy and grandchildren: Michelle, Christine, Angela, Stephen and Nathan as well as two great-grandsons.