Topeka - Betty Doris Vanderslice, 95, passed away on Tuesday, October 11, 2022, at Midland Hospice Care in Topeka, Kansas. She was born on September 12, 1927, in Reading, Kansas, the daughter of Hezie and Emma (Barnett) Bibbee.

Betty grew up in Reading, Osage City and Lyndon. She had lived for a time in Overbrook before moving back to Lyndon and has resided in Topeka since 2000.

Betty worked for Priebe Grocery in Vassar, O'Bryhim's in Overbrook and for grocery stores in Osage and Lyndon. In 1966 she started work for the Kansas State Insurance Department, where she started as a Clerk and moved up to Supervisor of Consumer Compliance until her retirement in 1994. Betty loved crafting, knitting, coloring, sewing, quilting and woodcrafts and ceramics, making her kids clothes and cheerleading outfits and neckties supporting school sports. Betty grew up on the farm and had a love for horseback riding and did so as long as she was able. Betty loved to travel and had made it to all but three States in the Union and spent many miles traveling to sporting events with her children and grandchildren.

On August 9, 1947, Betty was united in marriage to Curtis Vanderslice in Wichita, Kansas. To this union 6 children were born, Mary Ann, Bill, Jim, Rodger, Doug, and Lisa.

Betty was preceded in death by her husband, Curtis on February 9, 1998; by her son, Jim on August 8, 1969; and by her parents, Hezie and Emma.

Betty is survived by her five children, Mary Ann Leslie of Topeka, Bill (Linda) Vanderslice of Cottonwood Falls, Rodger Vanderslice of Overbrook, Doug Vanderslice of Kansas City, Missouri and Lisa (Duane) Morris of Auburn; her sister, Marjorie Guenther of Olathe; twelve grandchildren, twenty-five great-grandchildren and one great-great-grandchild.