Elizabeth 'Betty' June Wright Hull, 90

March 8, 2014, Elizabeth “Betty” June Wright Hull “left this earth for a better place.” 

As the last surviving member of her lifelong Browning school friends, Lucille, Ruth and Anne, “her gang,” as she called them, she was looking forward to seeing them all again.  

Betty June was born to Elsie and William Wright on June 9, 1923, in Cut Bank, growing up in Sun Burst and Browning. She was athletic, loving winter sports, swimming in glacier-fed lakes and riding horses across the beautiful prairie. In high school she was a cheerleader, but poured her energies into music under the direction her music teacher Bob Scriver, playing her clarinet on CBS radio at state festival. 

She graduated with a Bachelor of Arts degree in music from what was then Montana State University in Missoula, in 1947. Betty worked at Fort Missoula during the war years as a phone operator. 

She taught music in Eureka and Darby before marrying the love of her life, Roland Henry Hull of Corvallis, on Aug. 5, 1951, in Hamilton. To this union came one daughter Kathryn and one son William. They made home in Hamilton and Whitefish. She also taught in Corvallis, Trapper Creek Job Corps, Pikunni Alternative School and gave private lessons.  Due to health issues, Betty moved to Roundup in 2005 and into Billings Health and Rehab in 2009.   

From the skills learned in 4-H, Betty was a remarkable seamstress. There was nothing she could not make, reflected by how well she dressed herself and her family. Crafting was also a talent that saw her producing many varied projects. Betty was good at playing bridge and liked to host parties. Ever social, she loved to eat out, travel and visit.  She was a loyal U of M Grizzly fan.

Betty was preceded in death by her parents, and her husband Rolly, all of whom she missed terribly. 

She is survived by her daughter, Kathy, and John Pfister, of Roundup; son, Bill, of Olney; granddaughters, Leanne and Brett Hoagland of Glendive, Loreta and Clint Halford of Chino Valley, Ariz., and Lyndee Pfister of Roundup; and great-grandsons, Connley Hoagland, and Reno and Brody Halford. 

Memorials may be sent to Billings Health & Rehab where Betty was so lovingly cared for, or a charity of choice. 

Betty did not like funerals and only asked for cremation and burial at Corvallis. In keeping with her wishes a graveside gathering will be held later this spring in Corvallis. If you wish to celebrate Betty’s life, go out to dinner, dance, play cards, laugh, smile, enjoy your friends; just do something fun because that is how she lived.