Betty Ellen Watters

Betty Watters died peacefully on August 12, 2015 in Odessa.

Born Betty Ellen White on August 2, 1916 to Benjamin and Beda White of Bristol, Colo., she graduated high school in Granada, Colo. and taught grades K-12 in a one-room school house in Colorado after graduating from Sterling College in Sterling, Kan.

Betty served as a Navy Wave from July 1944 through October 1945. She went to Naval Training in Bronx, New York, attended radio school at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio and was assigned to communications in Seattle. She married Elmer E. Watters, Jr. November 5, 1944, while he was serving...