Submitted by Family

Betty Lou Roberts Jeffress was born May 1, 1942 in Okaloosa, Louisiana to Oda Lee and Tressie Hobbs Roberts.  She died in Ruston, Louisiana on June 8, 2024 at the age of 82. Betty is survived by her son Jonathan Walsworth, his wife Casey and granddaughter Shiloh of Downsville, Louisiana.  She is also survived by her sister Sandra Roberts Williams and husband Jerry of Pineville, Louisiana; sisters-in-law LuWana Roberts of Rexburg, Idaho and Cascille Roberts of  Decatur, Alabama, as well as numerous nieces, nephews and friends.

Betty was preceded in death by her parents and seven siblings:  Ruby Roberts McCall, Marshall Lee Roberts, Bobby Gene Roberts, Rev. Don Roberts, Dorothy Roberts Head, Joyce Roberts Curry, and Rev. Oda Wayne "Tuck" Roberts; and her husband Raymond "Doc" Jeffress of Jonesboro, Louisiana.

Betty was a lifelong educator and began her teaching career at Jonesboro Hodge High School after graduation from Northeast Louisiana University (ULM).  She later taught at Downsville High School from which she retired after a teaching career of over thirty years.  She continued to substitute teach after retirement and did so until her poor health did not allow it.  She often said that she had been a teacher for "over fifty years."  For many years, she wrote a weekly article entitled "Musings and Meanderings" which appeared in the Jackson Independent Newspaper until the paper was sold.

Services will be held Wednesday, June 12, 2024 at Kilpatrick Serenity Gardens in West Monroe, Louisiana.  Visitation will begin at 10:00 a.m. with the service to follow at 10:30 a.m.  Conducting the service will be Rev. Stuart Sherman.

Pallbearers will be Jonathan Walsworth, Ryan Epps, Michael Jones and Devin Winkler.