Betty McMillan

Betty Mae (Norris) McMillan died on Monday, July 10, 2023, at the age of 95. She was born August 9, 1927, in Wichita, Kansas at St. Francis Hospital to William Clarence Norris and Linda Elizabeth Selma (Achelpohl) Norris. Betty attended Pleasant Ridge and Mulberry country schools until the 8th grade, when the family moved to Wellington, Kansas, where she attended Wellington Junior High School and Wellington Senior High. She worked at Watkins Rexall Drug for Ray and Bonnie Watkins and later at Albin’s Furniture Store in the Record Bar. On June 9, 1946, Betty married Charles J. McMillan. They had three daughters: Kathryn Ann, Debra Jo, and Lisa Christine.

In 1956 they moved to Augusta, Kansas, with Jarvis Auto Supply and in 1958 to Winfield, Kansas, and in 1967 back to Wellington. Baptized in 1941 at the Church of Christ- has been a Methodist all of her life- as were her mother and Grandparents.

Betty loved playing bridge, playing cards with her grandchildren, watching movies, listening to music, dancing, and taking short shopping trips with her daughters and granddaughters. She worked for Midwest, Inc., GEC, and Plessey for 25 years, retiring in 1992. She was a co-owner of Katherine’s Tea Room and loved her friends and family.

Survivors include her daughters: Debbie Frazee and Bill Stroud, and Lisa Thompson and Brent Washburn, both of Wellington, Kansas; son-in-law, Keith Tolles of Arkansas City, Kansas; grandsons: Michael Speer and Melissa of Wichita, Kansas, and Shawn Frazee of Wellington, Kansas; granddaughters: Amy Walker and Jason of Wellington, Kansas, Megan Bergstrom and Garet of Wichita, Kansas, and Allie McGuire and Jeff of Wellington, Kansas; great-grandchildren: Tysana Speer, Britney Mace and Bradley, Tanner Frazee, Angel Buresh and Braiden, Siarah Cole and Luke, Brittany Staley and William, Keven Walker, Wyatt Bergstrom, Weston Bergstrom; 13 great-great-grandchildren; and many nieces and nephews.

Betty was preceded in death by her husband, Charles McMillan; daughter, Kathy Tolles; her parents, Clarence and Selma Norris; brothers: Bill and Dick Norris; sister: Donna Wilson; infant sister, Evelyn Helen Norris; and grandson, Chad Speer.

A visitation with the family will be held at Cornejo Funeral Home from 2 to 5 p.m. Sunday, July 16, 2023.

Funeral services for Betty will be held at 10:00 a.m., Monday, July 17, 2023, at the Cornejo Funeral Home Chapel, 1030 Mission Road, Wellington, KS, 67152. Internment will follow at Prairie Lawn Cemetery in Wellington, Kansas.

In lieu of flowers, a memorial has been established in her loving memory with ESA Sorority.

To share a memory or leave condolences, please visit www.cornejofuneralhome.com.

Arrangements are by Cornejo Funeral Home & Crematory, Wellington, Kansas.