May 3, 1998

BETTY L. SCALES

MOUNDS, Ill. -- Betty L. Scales, 68, of Mounds died Friday, May 1, 1998, at St. Francis Medical Center in Cape Girardeau. She was born on March 13, 1930, at Roswell, N.M., daughter of Dave and Sarah Walker Castle. She was a telephone operator for the Mounds Telephone Co. before retiring...

MOUNDS, Ill. -- Betty L. Scales, 68, of Mounds died Friday, May 1, 1998, at St. Francis Medical Center in Cape Girardeau.

She was born on March 13, 1930, at Roswell, N.M., daughter of Dave and Sarah Walker Castle.

She was a telephone operator for the Mounds Telephone Co. before retiring.

She married William L. "Bill" Scales.

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Survivors include her husband of Mounds; her mother, Sarah Castle of Cairo; two daughters, Brema "Pill" Severs of Pulaski and Cindy Everly of Mounds; a brother, Buddy Castle of Tiverton, R.I.; a grandson; two granddaughters; and two great-grandchildren.

She was preceded in death by her father.

Friends may call at the Barkett Funeral Home in Mounds after 5 p.m. today.

Funeral will be conducted at 1 p.m. Monday at the funeral home with the Revs. Larry Miller and Herman Painter officiating. Burial will follow in Green Lawn Memorial Gardens at Villa Ridge.

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