Betty Jean Irwin

Betty Jean (Stover) Irwin, age 94, of Sunnyside, WA. went to her saviors arms on January 1, 2024. Betty Jean was born on December 5, 1929 in Pocasset, Oklahoma the youngest daughter of twelve children of William Jacob and Eliza Ann Malinda (Burkhart) Stover. 

On January 13, 1951 she married Donald Joseph Irwin in Forman, Arkansas. The Irwin family, moved to the Yakima Valley in the 1950,s. Where they raised Cattle and their family.  She loved to crochet and making quilts, above all she cherished time spent with her family.  Betty Jean is survived by her six daughters Linda Baze, Lucinda Dreher, Elizabeth Linton (Terry), Geneva Judkins (Clinton), Virginia Johnson (Duane) and Donna Irwin. She is also survived by twenty grandchildren, numerous great grandchildren, great great grandchildren and her brother John Roy Stover (Hildegard). Betty Jean is preceded in death by her parents, ten brothers and sisters, Her loving husband Donald Joseph Irwin, grandson Rocky Mieirs,  granddaughter Johannah Lee Judkins,  great granddaughter Bethany Sills and great grandson Jedidiah Johnston. Johnston.

Viewing and visitation will be held 9:00 a.m. Thursday, January 4, 2024, at the Smith Funeral Home in Sunnyside, Washington, with funeral to follow at 12:00 p.m.  Graveside service to follow funeral service at Lower Valley Memorial Gardens Cemetery in Sunnyside, Washington. Those wishing to sign Betty's online memorial guest book may do so at www.funeral homesmith.com  Smith Funeral Home is in care of arrangements. 

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