Betty Jane McKenzie, age 93 of Mt. Vernon, Texas formerly of Adrian, Missouri died Thursday, November 20, 2025 at her daughter’s home in Texas. She was born March 23, 1932 to Charles Elias and Erna Marie Adeline Reiter Kemmerer in Kansas City, Missouri.
Betty is survived by four daughters, Cecelia McKenzie-Shilling and husband Franz of Archie, Missouri, Mary McKenzie-Dunning and significant other Bruce of Natoma, Kansas, Elizabeth McKenzie-Smith and husband Philip of Mt. Vernon, Texas and Kathleen Winn and husband David of Drexel, Missouri; two sons, Robert McKenzie and wife Rita of Adrian, Missouri and Patrick McKenzie and wife Jacqueline of Kansas City, Missouri; 17 grandchildren; numerous great and great-great-grandchildren; one brother, John Kemmerer and wife Rebeca of Mexico; and one sister, Sharon Erwin of Harrisonville, Missouri. Betty was preceded in death by her parents; husband, Russell Jerome McKenzie; two grandsons, Christopher Martin Schilling and Ryan Dunning; one great-grandson, Mark Joseph Schilling; and two brothers, Charles Ernest Kemmerer and Harold Edward Kemmerer.
