BETTY REXRODE

03/31/1940 - 12/11/2022

Betty W. Rexrode of Houston passed away on December 11, 2022 after a two-year battle with pancreatic cancer. She was 82 years old.

Betty was born in 1940 to Dr. William and Nancy Wilson in Vernon, Texas.

After graduating from Vernon High School in 1958, and from TCU in 1962, she began teaching high school in Carrollton, TX.

Later, while teaching at

U.S. Army Headquarters in Camp Zama, Japan, she met and later married Captain Ronald Rexrode in 1967.

Prior to living in Houston since 1973, they lived in New York, NY, Indianapolis, IN, and Arlington, TX.

An avid lover of gardening and birdwatching, Betty became a Certified Master Gardener with the Texas

A&M Agricultural Extension Service. She also shared her love of animals and wildlife by serving as a volunteer at the Edith L. Moore Nature Sanctuary as a docent, counselor, and board member.

She loved traveling and visited extensively in Europe, East Asia, North America, and many national parks within in the United States.

Betty was a member of Cinco Ranch Church of Christ in Katy, TX for 27 years, and Eldridge Road Church of

Christ in Sugar Land, TX for 22 years where she served on several ministries.

Loved by all who knew her, Betty will be greatly missed by her family and friends, who will remember her as a person of great kindness and a blessing to others. Most of all, she enjoyed her family and is survived by her husband, Ron, of 55 years and her two sons, Todd and Andrew of Houston, TX.

Interment of ashes will be in Vernon, TX near her father, Dr. William Wilson, mother, Nancy Wilson, and brother Billy Wilson all of Vernon,

TX.

A memorial service will be announced in early 2023.

In her honor, the family invites you to donate online to the Coastal Prairie Conservancy, 31975 Hebert Road, Waller, TX, 77484.