BETTY RISTER

CHARLESTON, Mo. -- Funeral for Betty Rister of Charleston will be held at 2 p.m. today at Shelby Funeral Home in Charleston. David Cullen will officiate. Burial will be in IOOF Cemetery.

Rister, 73, died Saturday, Feb. 24, 2001, at Missouri Delta Medical Center in Sikeston, Mo.

She was born Nov. 2, 1927, in Cape Girardeau, daughter of F.T. and Grace Rowe Cutliph. She and Earnie Rex Rister were married Dec. 29, 1954, in Hernando, Miss. He died Nov. 26, 1993.

Rister lived in Charleston most of her life. She was employed by Shelby Funeral Home in Charleston and was a member of the United Methodist Church.

Survivors include a daughter, Margaret Lankheit of the home; a granddaughter; and four great-grandchildren.

She was preceded in death by her parents and an infant brother.