Betty Dorine Malloy, 90, of Crane, Missouri was born on November 13,1933 to Gordon and Elva McGinnis and departed this life on August 16, 2024
Betty was a wife and mom in the purest form. She loved big and cared deeply about her husband and all four of her children. She and our Navy dad met in British Columbia, Canada. Then they married in Washington State, moved to California, and then on to Galena, MO where they settled for most of their lives together.
As a mom and homemaker, our Mom Betty rocked it totally!
Mom made most of we girls and her own clothes. She kept up with fashionable items that worked well with the finished frills. She even made a few boys’ dress shirts and did a lot of ironing and mending for our dad, Dwight. She was a true homemaker who celebrated everything special occasion with delicious home cooked meals topped off with several desserts that she many times created herself. She loved to dance, skate, sing, and play a guitar or her Dobro. Betty also loved fishing on the rivers and lakes in the Galena/Branson area.
Being a curious, intelligent woman, Betty never backed away from an educational challenge! So when she arrived here from Canada, she went to work on her American citizenship which she received in 1961. That very same year, she got her Voter ID Card and Driver’s License. Look out Galena here comes Betty in her pink and gray Polaris Sedan complete with back fins and push button gear shifts. She never ceased to amaze us all. So in 1966, she headed to Springfield to go to Beauty School. There she learned how to beautify the town gals. Her shop was built on the front of our home and she has a very successful business for 13 years until our dad’s health was wrecked with a disease called Lupus. Betty closed her business and dedicated her days to her husband’s care, doing jobs here and there to make ends meet. In 1974, she and my dad worked with Governor Bond to make more inclusive special educational opportunities for disabled children with special needs. Out of several years of work came TAN-TONE, Taney and Stone Counties combined effort to provide jobs at a sheltered workshop and special education for elementary students through high school students.
It was the pinnacle of our mom’s life when grandchildren, great-grandchildren and great-great grandchildren arrived. Through the years,
there were 31 of these little blessings in all. She enjoyed every second spent with them all.
If you knew this 5 ft-- 88 lb dynamite lady you were one of the blessed and I was one of the luckiest Love your daughter, Cheryl.
She was preceded in death by her husband, Dwight, her parents; a son, Randall Malloy and one granddaughter Brandy Marie Malloy.
Her survivors include, one son, Mark Malloy; two daughters, Cheryl (Dennis) Boggess and Shelia Malloy; six grandchildren; sixteen great-grandchildren; eight great-great grandchildren and two half-sisters Lenore Williams and Edith Williams.
Funeral services will be held at Morning Star Baptist Church on August 31.
Visitation will be from 11:00 a.m. until service time at 12:00 p.m.
Final disposition will be cremation under the care of Westrip Funeral Home.
Betty was a wife and mom in the purest form. She loved big and cared deeply about her husband and all four of her children. She and our Navy dad met in British Columbia, Canada. Then they married in Washington State, moved to California, and then on to Galena, MO where they settled for most of their lives together.
As a mom and homemaker, our Mom Betty rocked it totally!
Mom made most of we girls and her own clothes. She kept up with fashionable items that worked well with the finished frills. She even made a few boys’ dress shirts and did a lot of ironing and mending for our dad, Dwight. She was a true homemaker who celebrated everything special occasion with delicious home cooked meals topped off with several desserts that she many times created herself. She loved to dance, skate, sing, and play a guitar or her Dobro. Betty also loved fishing on the rivers and lakes in the Galena/Branson area.
Being a curious, intelligent woman, Betty never backed away from an educational challenge! So when she arrived here from Canada, she went to work on her American citizenship which she received in 1961. That very same year, she got her Voter ID Card and Driver’s License. Look out Galena here comes Betty in her pink and gray Polaris Sedan complete with back fins and push button gear shifts. She never ceased to amaze us all. So in 1966, she headed to Springfield to go to Beauty School. There she learned how to beautify the town gals. Her shop was built on the front of our home and she has a very successful business for 13 years until our dad’s health was wrecked with a disease called Lupus. Betty closed her business and dedicated her days to her husband’s care, doing jobs here and there to make ends meet. In 1974, she and my dad worked with Governor Bond to make more inclusive special educational opportunities for disabled children with special needs. Out of several years of work came TAN-TONE, Taney and Stone Counties combined effort to provide jobs at a sheltered workshop and special education for elementary students through high school students.
It was the pinnacle of our mom’s life when grandchildren, great-grandchildren and great-great grandchildren arrived. Through the years,
there were 31 of these little blessings in all. She enjoyed every second spent with them all.
If you knew this 5 ft-- 88 lb dynamite lady you were one of the blessed and I was one of the luckiest Love your daughter, Cheryl.
She was preceded in death by her husband, Dwight, her parents; a son, Randall Malloy and one granddaughter Brandy Marie Malloy.
Her survivors include, one son, Mark Malloy; two daughters, Cheryl (Dennis) Boggess and Shelia Malloy; six grandchildren; sixteen great-grandchildren; eight great-great grandchildren and two half-sisters Lenore Williams and Edith Williams.
Funeral services will be held at Morning Star Baptist Church on August 31.
Visitation will be from 11:00 a.m. until service time at 12:00 p.m.
Final disposition will be cremation under the care of Westrip Funeral Home.
