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Hume © Enid News and Eagle 01-12-2022 Submitted by: Glenn
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February 20, 1928 - January 6, 2022
Mary Elizabeth "Betty" Vance Hume, La Habra, CA, was born on Monday, February 20, 1928, to Arthur Vance and Irene Mildred (Lovejoy) Smith, in Enid, OK. She passed away at 7:39 a.m. on Thursday, January 6, 2022, at PIH hospital in Whittier, CA, after a brief illness. She was 93 years, 10 months, two weeks, and three days old.
On Friday, October 31, 1947, she married her high school sweetheart, David Ellsworth Hume, at St. Matthew's Episcopal Church, in Enid, OK, where they each were baptized, confirmed members, and had grown up attending with their two families. The Rev. H. Augustus Guiley, Rector, officiated. They were married for more than 70 years. Betty and Dave portrayed Mary and Joseph in the St. Matthew's Christmas Pageant in 1938; they were both in the sixth grade.
Betty graduated from Enid High School in 1945, and from Phillips University with a B.S. in 1948. She earned her M.S. degree at Phillips in 1966. She taught fifth grade at Monroe Elementary School, Enid, OK, for five years. Betty and Dave moved to La Habra, CA, in 1969, and she taught fifth grade at Ocean View Elementary School, Whittier, CA, for 23 years. An early Macintosh aficionado, Betty initiated a computer science program at Ocean View Elementary School. Prior to beginning her teaching career in 1964, Betty was a stay at home mother and homemaker. She was an excellent cook and seamstress. She drove her older sons on their Daily Oklahoman and Enid Morning News and Daily Eagle paper routes when the weather was bad. She wanted their papers delivered on time! She was often a home room mother, a Cub Scout den mother, and a Blue Bird and Campfire girls leader. She was active in both St. Mary's Guild and the Women's Auxiliary at St. Matthew's. Betty and Dave were pledge clerks for several years at St. Matthew's.
Betty's mother taught her to read at home while she attended Enid's Blue Bird Kindergarten. She began first grade at McKinley Elementary School in Enid and was promoted to the third grade for her second year in that school. A voracious reader from age five through last week, Betty was a frequent library visitor in Enid and La Habra, and later keenly enjoyed her book club for many years. She read to her children constantly and got them all using the Carnegie Public Library in Enid at early ages. They were always enrolled in the summer reading programs at the library. If they wanted to swim daily, they also had to read daily. In the last ten or more years, she enjoyed hearing books via Audible.com, but also always had a real book or a Kindle book working as well. In California, she made countless trips driving her youngest son, John, his pals, and their surfboards to the many beaches of Southern California and she never missed one of John's Pop Warner football games. Betty would often grade papers while the boys surfed. Dave and Betty loved working in their yard and growing plants in their greenhouse. They also enjoyed their many two legged (ducks, chickens) and four legged (dogs, cats, pigs, goats, small horses) pets for over 74 years. She enjoyed playing many word games and Soduku puzzles on her iPad. She felt it kept her mind agile. She loved playing board games and card games, like Skipbo, with her children and grandchildren. Betty took no prisoners while playing games; she was a fierce competitor! She belonged to a bridge club for many years. She became an avid golfer for many years after retiring from teaching.
She maintained a daily exercise and stretching regimen and was a North Hills neighborhood walker until shortly before this past Christmas. The last couple of years she pushed her walker along on her daily walks. It had a seat on it in case she needed to rest for a minute halfway through her walk. Betty was the eternal optimist, she was always ready to get things finished; she held our family together at all times! Betty was always the first to answer the Facebook or Instagram posts of her grandchildren and great grandchildren.
Betty and Dave loved to travel. They flew to the U.K., where they had tea one afternoon with the Hume family clan leader and his wife, former Prime Minister of Great Britain, Sir Alexander Frederick Douglas-Home, Baron Home of the Hirsel, the 14th Earl of Home, on the edge of Coldstream, Berwickshire, in the Scottish Borders. They frequently visited Hawaii for two weeks every other year. They cruised to Alaska and also through the Panama Canal. In the summer of 1967, they lived in Freeport, on Grand Bahama Island, where Dave set up a manual, pen and ink accounting system for their friend Jim Keele's four retail shops located in the Freeport International Bazaar.
Dave preceded Betty in death on Sunday, March 11, 2018; he was 90 years old.
They raised four children: David Vance (Jacquelyne Cutbirth), Jeffrey Bruce (Francee Harmon), Sally Ann (David Cook), and John Alvin (Jacqueline Thompson). Dave and Betty had a "Baker's Dozen" of grandchildren: John Blancuzzi, Claire Hume, Betsy Bell, Libby HumeGaspar, Courtney Filer, Lesley Keele, Jessica Morton, Justin Cook, Andrew Hume, Hunter Hume, Landon Hume, Summer Hume, and Brock Hume. There are 18 great grandchildren: Nicole Cook, Garrett Bell, Sydney Bell, Haylee Lofton, Vance Cashwell, Tristin Cook, Stem Morton, A.J. Gaspar, Kate Havice, Andrew Blancuzzi, Matthew Blancuzzi, Colt Havice, Reagan Filer, Bodi Cook, Ryder Cook, Sophia Keele, Barrett Filer, and Kinley Cook.
A Burial Office with Holy Eucharist will be held Friday afternoon at two o'clock, in St. Matthew's Episcopal Church, 518 W. Randolph Ave., Enid, OK 73701. Her interment will follow at the old Enid Cemetery next to her husband and their respective parents. In lieu of flowers, the family requests gifts in her memory be given to the St. Matthew's Episcopal Church Memorial Fund. Henninger-Hinson, the Hume and Smith families' funeral home since 1915, is directing her preparation, service, burial, and will serve as custodian of any memorial gifts given in her honor.
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