SAGINAW, Texas — Betty Jo Wardlaw Berry

passed away peacefully on March 11, 2023 at home surrounded by family in Saginaw, Texas.

She was born in Warren, Ark., February 6, 1926. She had been in home hospice care with her daughter, Jeanette Berry.

She was preceded in death by her husband, Thomas H Berry Sr. (just four weeks prior to their 75th wedding anniversary), parents, T. D. Wardlaw Jr. and Eddie Erwin Wardlaw and brother, Thomas Erwin Wardlaw and wife Betty Hanson Wardlaw.

Betty Jo is survived by her four children, Thomas Harold Berry Jr. and wife Ginger of Frisco, Texas, Olivia Jeanette Berry of Saginaw, Texas, Richard Alan Berry and wife Denise of Roswell, Ga., and Beverly Berry of Weatherford, Texas; grandchildren, Cynthia Berry Gangi and husband Chris of Frisco, Texas, Gina Berry of Frisco, Texas, Tony Jordan of Saginaw, Texas, Eric Greeley of Cleburne, Texas, Brandy Berry of Wills Point, Texas; great-grandchildren, Nick Gangi (wife Becci) Madeline Gangi Gentry (husband Ryan) Grace Stafford, Matthew Stafford, Lexington Young, Braiden Anders and Arya Greeley; nieces and nephews, Bob Wardlaw, John and Si’Eun Wardlaw, Barry Wardlaw, Patti and Paul Saggese, Elizabeth and Paul Kaseman.

Betty Jo was a graduate of Warren High School, class of 1944, and married her high school sweetheart just before he left for WWII service in the Pacific.

She loved Her Lord and Savior and was a long-time member of First Baptist Church Camden, Ark., where her husband was a Deacon. She will be greatly missed by all that knew her.

Services will be held at Frazer’s Funeral Home, Warren, Ark., on March 18, 2023, with a visitation 12-2 p.m. Funeral in Frazer’s chapel at 2 p.m. March 18, 2023, and burial at Oakland Cemetery immediately after chapel service.