Betty Jean (Frost) Pino, 81, of Edwardsville, KS, died Wednesday, February 6, 2019 at Shawnee Mission Medical Center. Visitation will begin at 10:00 A.M., with memorial services at 11:00 A.M., February 12, 2019 at Porter Funeral Home, 1835 Minnesota Ave., Kansas City, KS. Memorial contributions may be made to your favorite animal shelter in Betty's name.
Betty was born October 21, 1937 in Kansas City, KS. She was a talented, creative artistwhose work was selected for the cover of the SW Bell Telephone Book in the 1970s. She showed her oil and watercolor paintings in local art shows and the Plaza Art Fair. She taught art classes out of the home and received her bachelor's degree in art education at Saint Mary University. As registrar at Bonner Springs High School and substitute teacher in several school districts, she was respected and loved by teachers and students alike. She especially enjoyed raising tomatoes and flowers and caring for her much-loved cats Maxine, Butch, Wrack, and Ruin. Betty was a Baptist, steadfast and unwavering in her faith, a godly woman who lived out her love for our Savior in word and deed. She was preceded in death by her parents, William Frost and Albina Frost King; her brother, Robert Lee Frost; the love of her life, John Ernest Pino; and her grandson, Daniel Jacob Henry. Betty is survived by her sisters, Carolyn Frost Peterson (Ray) and Tressa Frost Richardson (Charles); her four children and their spouses: Frank and Elizabeth Pino; Connie and Steven Henry; Joyce Fuentes; Russ and Lee Pino, Ft. Myers, FL; her grandchildren Devin and Mallory Pino, John and Brandy Pino, Amy and David Dearth, Mattie and Keenan Clements, Michael Fuentes, and Collin Henry; and her great-grandchildren Logan, Charlotte, Annabelle, Vivienne, Aidyn, Gavyn, and Raevyn. Betty treasured her family. Her humor, her zest for life, and her legacy will live on forever through her beloved family.
We are so grateful to God for blessing our lives with the beautiful gift of you. We miss you, Momma, more than words can say. ''Her children rise up and call her blessed, her husband also, and he praises her. Many women have done excellently, but you surpass them all." Proverbs 31: 28-29.
Well done, good and faithful servant.