A graveside service for BETTY D PERSHING, 84, of Casper, Wyoming will be held on Wednesday, August 15, 2012 at Riverview Memorial Gardens in Worland, Wyoming at 2pm. Betty passed away at Life Care Center of Casper, Wyoming on Saturday, August 11, 2012. In lieu of flowers memorials can be made to Life Care Center of Casper Wyoming.
She was born on April 20, 1928 in Mitchell, Nebraska to Vern and Sara "Sadie" (Paxton) McKim. The family then moved to Scottsbluff, Nebraska where Betty was raised and graduated with a high school diploma from Scottsbluff High School in 1946. She married Elbert H. Pershing on September 29, 1946 and had three children. The couple later divorced.
Betty is survived by her children Vicki (Tony) Santistevan of Casper, WY, Teri (Michael) Rohde of Ann Arbor, MI, and Kelly (Tracey) Pershing of Douglas, WY, 12 grandchildren, and 16 great grandchildren. She was preceded in death by her parents, former husband Elbert Pershing, three brothers Oren, Dale, and Don McKim, two half brothers, Vern "Mac" and Kenneth McKim, and four sisters, Lorraine Points, Irene Reed, Bernice Rawles, and Dorothy Andrews.