Betty Coward Oglesby, age 75, of McShan, AL died March 28, 2019 at Hospice of West Alabama.
Funeral services will be 2:00 pm Sunday, March 31, 2019 at Union Hill Free Will Baptist Church with Rev.
Kevin Taylor officiating. Burial will follow in the church cemetery with Skelton Funeral Home of Reform directing. A reception and visitation will be immediately following the service at the church. The body will lie in state 30 minutes prior to the service.
She was preceded in death by her husband of 55 years, Joe Earl Oglesby; her parents; three sisters,
Dot Melton, Virginia Perrigin and Edna Wright and four nephews, Ronnie Wright, Jimmy Wright, Stanley
Johnson and Ronnie Shaw.
Survivors include her daughters, Teresa Gulley of Columbus, MS and Janice Lowe and husband,
Terry of Reform; her son, Michael Oglesby and wife, Judy of Steens, MS; one sister, Vertrice Johnson
(Kenneth) of Climax Springs, MO; six grandchildren, Jeannette Foster (Jerry), Brittany Shurden, Katie Atkins (Max), Heather Stapp (Cody), Hannah Potts (Brandon) and Corey Kilgore; eleven great-grandchildren, Dean, Jeigh and Lee Foster, Anna, Emily, Landon and Cameron Shurden, Jade and Haylie Atkins, Emma Stapp and Riley Potts; a host of nieces and nephews and special friend, Ray Shaw and his family.
Betty was born May 28, 1943 in Pickens County, Alabama to the late Edward Theodore Coward and Mary Lee Gilliam Coward. She was a member of Union Hill Free Will Baptist Church and former employee of Westinghouse and the U. S. Postal Service in McShan, AL.
Pallbearers will be her grandsons.
In lieu of flowers the family suggests memorials to Hospice of West Alabama, 3851 Loop Road,
Tuscaloosa, AL 35404 or Union Hill Free Will Baptist Church Cemetery Fund, 11 Union Hill Road, Reform, AL 35481.