Betty Fadler

MARBLE HILL, Mo. -- Betty L. Fadler, 70, of Marble Hill died Thursday, July 1, 2004, at Southeast Missouri Hospital.

She was born May 14, 1934, at Chaffee, Mo., daughter of J.H. and Erline Ponder Davenport. She and Jerry Fadler were married in April 1998 at Chaffee.

Fadler was a secretery, organist and pianist for Evangelical United Church of Christ before retiring this year. She also was co-owner of an insurance company in Wilson, Ark., before moving to Cape Girardeau and worked as a secretary at Lowes & Drusch law office. She was a member of First United Methodist Church in Chaffee.

Survivors include her husband; her mother of Chaffee; three sons, Robert Rhodes of Newton, Kan., John Rhodes of Norfolk, Va., Bentley Rhodes of Cape Girardeau; a brother, Tom Davenport of Chaffee; a sister, Cheryl Spencer of Denver, N.C.; and six grandchildren.

Friends may call at Ford and Sons Mount Auburn Funeral Home from 10 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. Monday.

Funeral will be at 1:30 p.m. Monday at the funeral home, with the Rev. Marty Blakey officiating. Burial will be in Fairmount Cemetery in Cape Girardeau.