Bette Peters Lantz Fitzgerald

SERVICES: Memorial services will be held at 11:00 AM Friday, July 18, 2008, at St. Matthew's Episcopal Church in Pampa, with Rev. Linda Kelly, rector, and Bill and Jan Ragsdale, officiating. Another service will be held at St. Mark's Episcopal Church in Abilene, yet to be determined. Her ashes will reside in the columbarium at St. Mark's. Cremation arrangements are under the direction of Carmichael-Whatley Funeral Directors.BIOGRAPHY: Mrs. Fitzgerald was born April 7, 1930 in Marlin where she lived until moving to Abilene when she was 15. She attended and graduated from Abilene High School. Bette married Donald Allison in 1947 in Abilene. She later married John Alton Lantz in July of 1950. She then married Edd Fitzgerald in 1971. He preceded her in death in 2005. She moved to Borger in 1978, living there until moving to Pampa in 1996. Bette was a founding member of St. Mark's Episcopal Church in Abilene where she taught Sunday School and Bible School, and where she participated in the building of the library. She conducted many missions with her children, spreading the gospel to the Navajo Indians. Bette was also a member of St. Peter's Episcopal Church in Borger and St. Matthew's Episcopal Church in Pampa. She was a member of Beta Sigma Phi sorority. She spent many years counseling people and working with them as a professional astrologer. Bette will be greatly missed by her family, extended family and friends.SURVIVORS: 2 daughters: Linda Lantz of Pampa and Lorri Lantz-Profit and husband Jeff of Abilene; 1 sister: Bobbe Vollrath of Columbus, Ohio; 1 brother: Don Peters and wife Sue of Enterprise, Alabama; 4 grandsons: Stephen Radcliff and wife Jenn of Denton, Mason Profit of Abilene, David Radcliff and wife Julie of Ft. Sill, Oklahoma, and Michael Landsverk of Pampa; 1 granddaughter: Dana Vickers of Abilene; 1 great-grandson: Corwin Radcliff of Denton; 1 great-granddaughter: Kaylee Rose Radcliff of Denton; 1 niece: Kelly Kemmerling of Seattle, Washington; 1 nephew: Randy Kemmerling of West Palm Beach, Florida. Bette was preceded in death by a son: Stephen Lantz in 1968; and 1 brother: Larry Peters in 1981.MEMORIALS: St. Matthew's Episcopal Church, 727 W. Browning, Pampa, Texas 79065, or St. Mark's Episcopal Church, 3150 Vogel Street, Abilene, Texas 79603.