Bettie J. Marley Perkins
Bettie J. Marley Perkins
1923 - 2011
Bettie peacefully passed away on April 26, 2011 at Hillcrest Assisted Living in Boise of natural causes at the age of 88.
Memorial services will be held at 11:00 am. Tuesday May 3rd at Southminster Presbyterian Church, 6500 Overland Road, Boise with Rev. Marci Auld Glass officiating. Private interment will be held at Morris Hill Cemetery. Funeral Arrangements are under the direction of Alden-Waggoner Funeral Chapel, Boise.
Bettie was born on January 7, 1923 in Wheatland,WY to John A. Marley and Alice McCartney Marley. Her family moved to Boise when she was a teenager and she attend and graduated from Boise High School in 1940. When she was 19 she went to New York City and studied opera for a year. When she returned she enrolled in Boise Junior College and fell in love with and married Eugene Edmond Perkins who she had attended high school with and both had graduated in 1940. They were married June 12, 1946 in Boise at the First Presbyterian Church. She later attended Boise Junior College, Boise State College, Boise State University, took Ext. courses with U of I and finally finished her last year of college at the College of Idaho in 1967 with a BA. in Music Education.
Bettie's great love in life was music. She was blessed with a beautiful high soprano voice and performed many solos for church, funerals and many various organizations. She and Eugene also were involved with a singing group for several years under directions of a teacher they had in high school. This group performed many concerts and musicals. They both sang in their church choirs.
Bettie second love was being a teacher and started teaching the 4th grade and music at Hillcrest Elementary. She moved to Pierce Park and taught there for a time and than moved to teaching the 6th grade at Cole Elementary School. She taught there for a couple of years and then moved in to the Teachers Resource Center (TRC) where she learned to be a librarian and worked there until retirement. She became the church librarian at Southminster Presbyterian Church and continued this job until just a a few years ago.
Bettie had a great love and devotion for her God and his son Jesus and the church. She served as an elder and as a deacon as well as teaching Sunday school classes. She also worked with kids choirs as well as singing with the adult choir. She was very involved with the women organizations in the church and prayer chains.
Bettie loved her husband and family and cherished her grand kids and later the great-grand kids. She loved the outdoors and geology and traveling with her family on camping, fishing and hunting trips. She also accompanied Eugene on 5 trips to Alaska and several magic conventions over the years. She was a very loving, caring, giving and religious person who always had a positive outlook and upbeat attitude. She was one to always try and help and pray for others. She will be solely missed by her family, church family and friends but we know you are with us mom and we love you.
Bettie is survived by her daughter, Jan K Eggleston and husband Mel of Boise and their children Lisa T. Eggleston of Nampa and Kevin B. Eggleston and his wife Ginny and great grand-children , Robert Eggleston, Mina Eggleston and Lily Eggleston of Kuna. Son, Gene B. Perkins and his wife Marilyn and children, Cody Perkins and his wife Tanya of Boise and Trevor Perkins of Boise, and niece Cherie Hawley and husband Jim of Jackson Hole, WY and great-grand niece Brienne Bennett and her husband Travis of New York City, niece Shirley Payne of Lebanon,OH, nephew Leroy Ellison of Phoenix, AZ.
Her parents, sister, Alberta Ellison, sister, Louise Evans, brother, Jack Marley and husband Eugene Perkins proceeded her in death.
Memorial contributions are suggested to the Bettie Perkins Memorial Fund at Southminster Presbyterian Church, Boise.
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