BETTY HUNT
Evansville, IN. – Betty Hunt, 87, of Evansville, Indiana passed away peacefully on Saturday, August 29, 2020 at Good Samaritan Home in Evansville.
Betty was born on June 8, 1933 to the late Elwood and Viola Johnson.
Betty enjoyed Wrestling, Softball, playing Bunco with her friends, going to her children and grandchildren’s BMX races but most of all she loved her family and their big get togethers.
She is preceded in death by her husband, Frank; daughters, Belinda Davenport and Penny Lupfer; brothers, Robert, Charles, Raymond, and James Johnson; sister, Lucinda Lythgoe.
Betty is survived by her sons, Joe (Tessie) Hunt; Robert (Karry) Hunt; grandchildren, Mandi Hunt who was a big part of Betty’s caregiving, Jacob Hunt, Conner Hunt, McKenzie Hunt, Lucy Hunt, Stacy Ricketts, Melissa Cook, Troy Edwards, Brandon Davenport; many great-grandchildren, as well as many nieces and nephews.
The family would like to extend their thanks to all the staff at Heart to Heart Hospice, Good Samaritan Home, and Lauren Dill N.P. for all of the continued care they provided to Betty.
George Whitfield says
Oh my memories came flooding back when I read the newspaper this morning. I=
first met Betty about 19770-71 when I worked for the Parks department and =
opened an afternoon/evening recreation program at Glenwood School. We had a=
“women,s gym class” where mostly mothers in the area played volleyball . B=
etty was one of those women. She was there when I=C2=A0 as a twenty somethi=
ng still somewhat athletic tore up my knee playing volleyball with those “o=
ld ladies”. When the parks department organized it’s first women’s slow pit=
ch softball league we formed a team to play in that league and that started=
my years coaching women/girls softball teams. We had Betty, her mother and=
I my memory is foggy but at least one of her daughters on the Team. The te=
am stayed together for 4 years. Betty was our 3rd baseman. Viola was happy =
to sit on the bench and I would try to find a chance to put her in to hit i=
n the last inning of games because ther was no re entry then and she was go=
ing to have to play in the field; the picture of the little right fielder w=
ho hoped the ball wouldn’t come her way.=C2=A0
I next heard from her some years later when she called me and told me that =
a girls softball league was being formed and a team was being organized at =
Scott and if I would come and coach my daughter Michele could play. She had=
me hooked. The league went by grades it wasn’t till we were organized that=
I found out Stacy was only a 5 year old kindergartner. And I also had some=
of coach Lote’s frustration with Kinsey’s other activities when Stacy woul=
d miss games to ride BMX although I understand the attraction since my 2 ol=
dest grand children also rode BMX.
And then there was a reuniting siting with her at games watching Paris and =
Kinsey.
But Betty really changed my life because if she had not been apart of that =
first group of softball players and had not called me to coach at Scott I d=
on’t know if I would have begun soft ball coaching. I didn’t know about the=
forming of a girls softball league and had no thoughts of Michele playing =
softball until she called me.
By the way we one the league championship the first 2 years with that bunch=
of mothers to the consternation of other teams of younger mostly single women .
George Whitfield