Betty Rhea Warhurst was born December 2, 1929, in Clinton, Oklahoma to Ray and Bess Stine and passed away on Friday August 11, 2023 in Texas at the age of 93 years, 8 months, 9 days.

Betty's grandparents on both sides were homesteaders in western Oklahoma. Betty Rhea experienced small town life during and following the Great Depression. Her mom was an accomplished seamstress and made her beautiful clothes. Her dad gave her a trombone and she played in the high school band. She went to a women's college in Chickasha, OK and majored in vocal music, but after a year transferred to the University of Oklahoma in biology. She would graduate and get her medical technology license, training at St. Joseph's Hospital in Oklahoma City. She met Jack Warhurst at OU and they married in 1952. While Jack finished his degrees and taught electrical engineering at OU, Betty worked at the student health service. Children, Bill and Mary Elaine followed in 1955 and 1957. They moved to California for Jack's job in 1957 and settled in southern California where they lived for 59 years before moving north to be near the kids in 2016.

Betty loved poetry, music (especially choral and vocal music), art of all kinds, going to museums, and travel. She was a stay-at-home mom when the kids were small, participating as a room mom, PTA volunteer, and Girl Scout leader. Starting in the late 1960's, when the kids were older, Betty returned to college for her elementary school teaching credential and taught for several years. She then obtained her California medical technology license and worked at medical laboratories. Both Jack and Betty served many years in their church. Betty led ladies Bible studies, prepared communion, taught Sunday School, and helped the candlelighters. She loved reading and singing to the grandkids and taking them to Laguna Beach.

Betty is survived by her son, Bill his wife, Grace and grandson, August; daughter, Mary Elaine and her husband, Dan and grandson, William and great-grandson, Jack; granddaughter, Elise, grandsons, Spencer and Zachary, granddaughter, Candace and great granddaughters, Emerson and Rylee.