This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Coney, Parks, VanDeventer, Pierce, McCulloch, Allen, Holdridge, Branch, Petersen Classification: Obituary Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/plB.2ACI/3747 Message Board Post: Betty Parks Coney Sept. 4, 1936 - May 9, 2006 Betty Parks Coney, 69, of Bay City passed away Tuesday, May 9, 2006 at Matagorda General Hospital. Betty was born on September 4, 1936 in Milburn, Oklahoma to parents, Bud and Maggie VanDeventer Parks. She married Charles Coney in Richardson, Texas on August 22, 1958. She worked for the Bay City Independent School District as an attendance clerk and secretary and was a member of the Retired Teachers Association, the 100 Club of Matagorda County and the First Baptist Church of Bay City. She was preceded in death by: her parents and a sister, Laverne Pierce. She is survived by: her husband, Charles of Bay City, a son and daughter-in-law, Jeff and Connie Coney of Bay City; a daughter and son-in-law, Terri and Dennis McCulloch of Bay City; brothers, Theo Cloyd and Francis Parks of Dallas, Kieller Parks of Kingston, Oklahoma, Hoyte and Christine Parks of Lone Oak, Texas, Pat Parks of Milburn, Oklahoma and Buddy and Ola Mae Parks of Milburn, Oklahoma. She is also survived by sisters, Wanda Allen of Chandler, Arizona, Helen Holdridge of Rowlett, Texas, and twin sister, Wilma and Jim Branch of Buffalo, Missouri; as well as grandchildren, Shannon and Ryan Petersen, Heather McCulloch, Kimberlee Coney, Rebecca Coney, and Avery Coney plus numerous nieces and nephews. A visitation is scheduled at Bay City Funeral Home on Thursday evening from 6 until 8 p.m. Funeral services will be held at 10 a.m., Friday, May 12, at the First Baptist Church in Bay City with Dr. Michael Zimmerman officiating. Interment will follow at Roselawn Memorial Park in Van Vleck. The family requests that donations be made to the American Cancer Society. Arrangements are with Bay City Funeral Home. Bay City Tribune Published May 14, 2006 Matagorda County, Texas