BETTY BALL MORETON

CHARLESTON -- Bettye Ball Moreton, 75, of Charleston died Saturday, Jan. 6, 1996, at Southeast Missouri Hospital.

She was born May 16, 1920, at Lillian, Texas, daughter of Eli R. and Sara Elizabeth Casstevens Ball. She and Lloyd K. Moreton were married Oct. 31, 1947. He died Feb. 26, 1980.

Moreton had lived in Mississippi County since 1948. She attended the University of Texas and Southeast Missouri State University. She was employed as a branch librarian with the Mississippi County Library for 18 years until retiring in 1977. She was also a teacher at the Wyatt Elementary School for five years. She was a member of the Wyatt Baptist Church.

Survivors are three daughters, Ann Stallings, Dot Renaud and Kaye McClendon, all of Charleston; three sisters, Inez Alsup of Dallas, Omega Shaw of Abilene, Texas, and Lillian Bradford of Arlington, Texas; seven grandchildren; and three great-grandchildren.

She was preceded in death by seven brothers and three sisters.

Friends may call at the McMikle Funeral Home in Charleston from 5-8 p.m. today.

Funeral service will be at 11 a.m. Tuesday at the funeral home. The Rev. Harold Norton will officiate, with burial in the I.O.O.F. Cemetery.