As the trees sparkled with ice and a blanket of snow covering the ground on the last day in March, Betty Jean Warrington passed on in the comfort of her home. Betty was born on December 10, 1939, in Tallapoosa, Georgia. In her younger years she helped raise her siblings, Paul, Bill, and Phillip Brown along with her younger sister, Vivian. All but Phillip, who resides in Louisville, Kentucky, have passed on. Betty met Ben Warrington during his duty station while in the Army located in Michigan. Ben brought her home in the spring of 1960 to meet his family at the Warrington Family Farm. They were married in August of that same year. For the next 65 years the Menominee Reservation was Betty's home. She embraced and respected the culture and traditions of the Menominee People. Betty worked as a cook with her mother-in-law, Mary Ben for several years at the St. Joseph's School in Keshena, a nurse's aide at the Evergreen Health Care Center, and Birch Hill Nursing Home in Shawano. She retired from the Keshena Primary School as a cook. Betty loved reading novels, dancing, singing, spending time with her family, and bird watching. She had the most beautiful handwriting skills.

Betty is survived by her children, Carmela (Clint), Annette (Andrew), Warren (Leah), Ben (Julie) and Elizabeth (Mark); brother, Phillip Brown; sister-in-law, Marcia Hause of Michigan; her grandchildren, Mary Morning, Brittany Cook, Miranda Cook, Jesse Warrington, Clarissa Pamonicutt, Monea Warrington, Mitchell Warrington, Montoya Waukau and Lillith Wenzel; her eight great-grandchildren, and numerous nieces and nephews. She also had a few extra sons, Dwayne "KitKat" Kitson, Michael "Bitzen" Peters and Josh Lawe, who she always had a meal ready for whenever he stopped by.

Betty was preceded in death by her husband, Ben of 64 years; mother, Grace Margaret Brown; father and mother-in-law, Benjamin and Mary Warrington (Brooks), Jesse Brooks; brother-in-law, Joseph Warrington, sister-in-law, Mae Warrington; and special friends, Ronald "Ozzy" Oshkosh, Babe and Buddy Tucker, Rae Gatz and Amber Johnson.

A funeral service for Betty will be held at 2:00 pm on Friday April 4, 2025, at Swedberg Funeral Home in Shawano with Nahwahquaw officiating. Visitation will begin at 11:00 am at the funeral home on Friday until the time of service. Burial will be at St. Michael Catholic Cemetery in the spring. In lieu of flowers the family is requesting you to please make a donation to the MenominiU Language Initiative www.menominiyou.org and to place out some bird seed or plant some flowers in her memory.

Betty wanted to thank those special friends that helped her feel at home on the Reservation and shared some fun-loving time together through the years, Susan Oshkosh, Annie King, Katie Hietpas, Tinker Webster and that good smelling Mr. Paul Wilke.