Mrs. Betty Pitman

Betty Jean Bodwell Pitman, 83, suffered a brain hemorrhage and passed away Friday, October 9th while family and friends kept vigil by her side. Visitation will be held Monday, October 12, 6-8 p.m. at D. W. Newcomers Funeral Home, 11200 Metcalf. Funeral services will be held Tuesday, October 13, 11:00 a.m. at Church of the Resurrection, Wesley Chapel, 13720 Roe. Betty loved children, so in lieu of flowers, the family suggests memorial contributions to CASA of Johnson & Wyandotte Counties, 6901 Shawnee Mission Parkway, Suite 112, Overland Park, KS, 66202, or Make-A-Wish Foundation of Missouri, Kansas City Program Center, 906 Grand Blvd., Suite 7A, Kansas City, MO, 64106. Betty, one of six children, was born December 15, 1925, in Kansas City, Mo, to Don and Ruth Bodwell. Betty graduated in 1943 from Southwest High School where she met the love of her life, Raymond F. Pitman. She attended the University of Missouri. Betty and Ray married on October 11, 1947, and continued expressing their passionate love and commitment to one another for 62 years. Her true passion was being a mother and grandmother and she nurtured all of those around her. Betty forever saw the best in others and was a steadfast wife, mother, sister, friend and she was a caring, loving and generous woman, with a ready smile and a great sense of humor. Betty was a member of Church of the Resurrection, Janet Boone Service Club, P.E.O, Young Matrons', and M&M's. Betty is preceded in death by her brother, Ted Bodwell, and her sisters, Sarah Fritz and Joan Dicker. She is survived by her husband, Raymond F. Pitman, and six children; Raymond F. Pitman, Jr., his wife Susannah, Mary Ruth Neddo, Betsy Curry, Kathy Walworth, her husband Roger, Nancy Carter, David Pitman and thirteen grandchildren and two great-children. She is also survived by two sisters, Barbara Nottberg and Nancy Carnes, her husband Jim, a sister-in-law, Joanne Stockdale, her husband Sam, seventeen nieces and nephews and countless friends. She will be greatly missed. We have been enormously blessed to have known her. Her life was an example for others and a gift to all that knew her.

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