Betty Sanders

Monday, August 4, 2008

Betty "Ann" Sanders, 77, of Danville, died Friday, Aug. 1, 2008 at Danville Regional Health.

Born on March 21, 1931, in Monticello, Ky., she was the daughter of Randolph and Etta Hicks Ragan.

She had been a file clerk secretary for Fidelity Abstract and had worked in assembly at P.R. Mallory's and was a member of Club 16 in Fillmore and charter member of Grace Baptist Church, Coatesville.

Survivors include her husband, Elgie Sanders; daughter, Rita Mae Coulter and husband Greg, of Greencastle; sons Jeffrey Sanders and wife Peg, of Speedway, and Randy "Buck" Sanders and wife Vicki, of Bainbridge; four grandchildren, one great-grandson; sisters Katherine Ferguson, of Madison, Grace Recher, of Lebanon, Virginia Doyle, of Kentucky, Nancy Smith, of Georgia; and brother Rev. Wallace Ragan, of Clarksville.

She was preceded in death by sisters Lena Panyard, Dolphine Starkey and Margie Ruetz.

Services will be at 11 a.m. Tuesday at Grace Baptist Church. Burial will be in Fillmore Cemetery.

Calling will be from 4 to 7 p.m. Monday at the church. Hays Funeral Home, Coatesville, is handling arrangements.