Betty Shurbet

Services for Betty Jean Shurbet, 87, of Paradise, Texas will be 10:00 am Friday, August 6, 2021 at First Baptist Church of Cottondale, officiated by Pastor Charles Pugh. Burial will follow in Paradise Cemetery. Pallbearers will be Bryan Lambert, Don Meadows, Brendan Sibley, Casey Nocks, Brice Shurbet, Jesse Cunningham, and Jett Cunningham. Honorary pallbearer is Aubrie Sibley. Visitation will be from 9-10 am Friday, also at the church, one hour prior to the service. Betty passed away Saturday, July 31 in McKinney.

She was born January 18, 1934 in Bridgeport, Texas to Marion Franklin Jones and Ruby Faye (Gibbs) Jones. Betty married Jessie Brice Shurbet on August 13, 1949.

Betty leaves behind her daughters Lorri Opperman of Flower Mound, Texas, Jana Sibley and husband Drew of Bluffdale, Texas, and Shannon Cunningham of Frisco, Texas; sons J.B. Shurbet of Galveston, Texas, and Jeff Shurbet of Tennessee Colony, Texas, and sisters Lucy Meadows of Paradise, and Pat Lambert and husband Cliff of Paradise; 11 grandchildren and 7 great-grandchildren.

She was preceded in death by her parents, husband, brother Gerald ‘Satch’ Jones, and sisters Coylene Jones and infant twins.  

© (Hudson & Torres Family Funeral Home)

ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. This obituary is a work protected under international and federal Copyright Laws and Treaties. Any unauthorized reproduction, distribution or use of this material is prohibited. No part of this compiled work may be reproduced, altered or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, or by any information storage and retrieval system without express written permission from the author.

The author hereby grants the newspaper the right to publish the compiled work on the dates and location provided in the submission details and further grants to the newspaper the right to reproduce the work electronically in any website or digital medium owned or controlled by the newspaper, provided the copy is not altered or modified in any way. The funeral home’s website domain must accompany any reproduction of the work. The work must not be used for or by any person for direct commercialized gain in competition with the author, the funeral home, or their respective businesses.