A graveside service for Betty Ruth Corley, 88, will be held on Friday, February 18, 2022 at 1:00 p.m. at Gray Cemetery, 150 FM 727 in Gray, Texas. A visitation will be held Thursday, February 17, 2022 at Rose-Neath Funeral Home, 2500 Southside Dr., Shreveport, Louisiana from 1:00 p.m. until 5:00 p.m. Officiating the service will be Pastor Travis Gulley of United Pentecostal Church of Waskom.
Betty was born July 20, 1933 in Norphlet, Arkansas to Chester Lee Moore and Minnie Lee Swearengin and passed away on Sunday, February 13, 2022 in Shreveport, Louisiana.
Betty was a resident of Waskom, Texas where she was a member of the United Pentecostal Church of Waskom. She taught Sunday School at the church and was a special singer. Her entire life revolved around the church and church activities. She retired from Barksdale Air Force Base where she worked the appointment desk at the base hospital.
Betty is preceded in death by her husband, Jessie Corley; son, Michael Wayne French; and two granddaughters, Angela French and Vickie Morris. Left to cherish her memory is her son, William French; grandson, Joseph Paul Wood; granddaughter, Holly Elizabeth; and numerous grandchildren, great-grandchildren, nieces, nephews, and other extended family members and friends.