Betha Lou Hager

Betha Lou Hager, 95, of Amarillo, Texas, passed away on Sunday, December 7, 2025. Funeral services are scheduled for 10:00 am on Friday, December 12, 2025, at First Baptist Church of Amarillo. The family will receive friends for a visitation on Thursday, December 11, 2025, from 5:00-7:00 pm at LaGrone Blackburn-Shaw Funeral Directors' Coulter Chapel.

Betha was born on March 6, 1930, to Victor Wayne Fowler and Lillian Stroup in Strong City, Oklahoma. She married James Wesley Hager on November 20, 1947, and together they shared 72 years of marriage. Betha was a devoted homemaker most of her life and then worked at Joske’s men's clothing department for 10 years. Betha loved spending time in the kitchen cooking-especially baking pies, cakes, candy and jelly. She had a great love for teaching her son how to cook and often joked that he would make a good wife one day. Betha was also incredibly talented at making beautiful quilts and found great joy in sharing them with her family. Betha was a very happy person and was always very positive and uplifting. She loved spending time at church and was a loving member of First Baptist Church in Amarillo. She was involved in mission work and helping people learn to speak English.

Betha was preceded in death by her parents; her husband, JW Hager; her children, Randall James Hager, Renee Elizabeth Cheshire and Robin Dwayne Hager and her brother, Richard Fowler.

Survivors left to cherish her memory are her son, Rick Hager and wife, Denelle, of Liberty Hill, Texas; her grandchildren, Dennis, Leann, Travis, Wes, Trudi, Brandon, Chelsea, Lala and Cody; 11 great-grandchildren and 2 great-great-grandchildren.