ELIZABETH LOUISE BROWN MOORE WORKMAN “BETTY WORKMAN”
July 6, 1918 - June 3, 2022
Betty Workman was born in Dallas, Texas on the 6th of July 1918, to Prather H. Brown and Maude Louise Muse Brown, and went to be with her Lord and Savior on Friday, the 3rd of June 2022. She was 103 years of age. She was welcomed home by loved ones long since departed and many friends.
She graduated from Woodrow Wilson High School in 1935 at the age of 17 and enrolled at Southern Methodist University where she was a member of the Chi Omega sorority. It was at SMU where she met and married “the love of her life” William S. Moore, Jr.
Moving to Houston in
1940, she and Bill welcomed Michael Muse (1942) and Allen Prather Blackburn (1946) into the Moore family. A lifelong Episcopalian, Betty, became active at Trinity Episcopal Church, and continued that devotion throughout her life helping to start several Episcopal churches in Houston. The family moved to Dallas for several years returning to Houston in 1956, settling into the Memorial area where Betty became active in a number of civic activities.
In 1958 Betty, Bill and their youngest son Allen were in a tragic car accident, and Betty was the only survivor.
With a strong faith in
GOD and support from the family, she overcame the trauma only to face it again when her second husband of five years, Charlie Atkinson, passed away in an automobile accident in 1967.
Betty persevered through these losses getting her life back to normal thanks to her family and her continuing faith.
In 1973, she married A. Eugene “Gene” Workman. After spending five years in Virginia, they returned to Houston joining St. Martins Episcopal Church. Betty remained active in the church after Gene’s death in 1987. At the time of her passing, she was their oldest parishioner.
In 2005, Betty moved to the new the Eagles Trace community. She loved it there, becoming very active and well known. Having lived there for 17 years, she was their oldest resident.
Betty is survived by son, Michael M. Moore; her grandchildren, Meredith and Kirk Sanford, Michelle and Kenneth Zagorski, Joanne and Matt Gonzales, Alicia Wakefield, John and Marie Wakefield; 13 great-grandchildren; cousins, Evelyn Smith, Bo Brown, Jack and Deanna Brown, Gilbert and Linda Brown, Beverly Cox, and Sandra Peck; and many friends.
The family would like to thank her caregivers, Dinia Asencio, Veronica Martinez, Veronica M. Salmeron and Ana Mendoza.
Friends are cordially invited to a visitation with the family from half-past five o’clock in the afternoon until half-past seven o’clock in the evening on Thursday, the 23rd of June, in the library and grand foyer of Geo. H. Lewis &
Sons, 1010 Bering Drive in Houston.
A funeral service is to be conducted at one o’clock in the afternoon on Friday, the 24th of June, in the Jasek Chapel of Geo. H. Lewis & Sons, where the Rev. John R. Bentley is to officiate.
In lieu of customary remembrances, the family requests with gratitude that memorial contributions in Betty’s honor be directed to St. Martin’s Episcopal Church, 717 Sage Road, Houston, TX, 77056; to Eagles Trace Residence Care Fund, 1401 Highway 6 South, Houston, TX, 77077; or to the charity of one’s choice.
Please visit Mrs. Workman’s online memorial tribute at GeoHLewis.com where fond memories and words of comfort and condolence may be shared electronically with her family.