Betty Jean Sinclair...Age 83

CREMATION

A VISITATION WILL BE HELD FROM 6-8PM THURSDAY, AUGUST 15, 2013 AT THE EDDY-BIRCHARD FUNERAL HOME.

MEMORIALS: THE AMERICAN HEART ASSOCIATION

Memorials may be sent in care of the Eddy-Birchard Funeral Home P.O.Box 430 Osawatomie, KS 66064

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Betty Jean Sinclair age 83, of Osawatomie, KS died Friday, August 09, 2013 at North Point Skilled Nursing Home in Paola, Kansas.

Betty was born on November 23, 1929 in Baldwin, Kansas the youngest child of three born to Carl H. and Nina Armenda (Reeves) Loree.

She attended school in Baldwin and graduated from Baldwin City High School with the class of 1947.While attending high school in 1945 Betty went to work as a nurse’s aide at Lawrence Memorial Hospital in Lawrence, Kansas.

On February 26, 1948 she married her one true love William Arthur Sinclair at the Ives Chapel Church in Baldwin, Kansas.They made their home in Baldwin while her husband William was attending college at KU in Lawrence, Kansas. In 1952 William was offered a job at Wicke Drug Store in Osawatomie, Kansas, this is when the family moved to Osawatomie. They bought the drug store from Fred Wicke on December 14, 1961 and became the proud owners of Sinclair Drug Store in Osawatomie.

Betty was a wife and mother to their six children, which in itself was a full time job. However Betty was a prominent fixture at the drug store during noon hours while the school kids had lunch and helped out whenever needed. They sold the drugstore on July 1, 1992.

Betty served as both a Girl Scout leader and Cub Scout Leader, and became a member of the Green Valley Social Club in 1989. She was also a member of the First United Methodist Church in Osawatomie.

Above all she was a loving wife, mother and grandmother. She enjoyed being with her family more than anything.

Betty was preceded in death by her parents, one infant son Ryan Justin Sinclair, her sister Dorothy Mae (Loree) Seig, her brother James Paul Loree and her foster sister Evelyn Irene Reeves.

She is survived by her husband William, her five children: William P. (Nancy) Sinclair of Parker, Kansas, Susan I. (Sinclair) and Denis Sumrall of Paola, Kansas, Glen A. (Ann) Sinclair of Spring Hill, Kansas, Rebecca E. (Sinclair) and Kenneth Diehm of Osawatomie, Kansas and Jill (Sinclair) and Eric Halverson of Olathe, Kansas . Nine grandchildren, eight great grandchildren, as well as many step grandchildren, many who called her Mom and Grandma Betty. She loved them all.