Betty Mae Marrs

Betty Mae Marrs, 96, of Amarillo, Texas passed away January 30, 2025.

Funeral service will be at 1:00 PM, Monday, February 3, 2025 at Boxwell Brothers Ivy Chapel, 2800 Paramount. Interment will follow in Memorial Park Cemetery. Arrangements are by Boxwell Brothers Funeral Directors. 

Betty was born in Hominy, Oklahoma on February 10, 1928. She was the only child of William Henry Lucas and Lovis Irene Romines Lucas. Her parents died due to illnesses in 1936, and she went to live with her grandparents, Rhoda and Dave Prater in Coffeyville, Kansas.

When she was 12 years old, Betty went to live with her Uncle Gene and Aunt Sadie Romines. Gene was a cowboy for the Ewing Halsall ranches in Lenapah, Oklahoma and Muleshoe, Texas. While living in Lenapah, Oklahoma, she met Bob Marrs who worked with her Uncle Gene in Muleshoe, Texas. Bob came to visit Betty's Uncle Gene on Christmas when he was visiting his parents. Betty lived with her Uncle Gene and Aunt Sadie until she married Bob Marrs in January, 1947.

Having been raised on a ranch, she understood the cowboy lifestyle that she and Bob would have together. They enjoyed moving to different ranches and riding horses together. Her life with Bob was fun, and although they didn't earn a lot of money, Betty said, "They didn't need much because they had each other."

Bob developed a love for working with leather and after learning how to make saddles from many talented saddle makers, they moved to Amarillo, Texas, to work at Stockman's Boot and Saddle Shop owned by Cotton Harvey. Bob and Betty bought the Saddle Shop in 1954 and changed the business name to Bob Marrs Stockman's Saddle Shop of Amarillo, Texas. Betty did everything in the shop she could, including bookkeeping, inventory and waiting on the customers, in order to help Bob as they built their business together. Bob was doing what he loved, making saddles and anything else cowboys might need, and Betty was doing what she loved, helping Bob in any way she could. They loved their life together in the saddle shop. Some of their fondest memories were meeting the cowboys and cowgirls who came into the shop and fulfilling their needs.

They had two beautiful daughters, Kathy and Debby, who also enjoyed growing up in the saddle shop; meeting the customers and watching their parents work together. Bob and Betty became members of Lawndale Church of Christ in 1958, now named Comanche Trail, where they taught Bible classes and worked with the

"Sunshiner's." They also have three beautiful granddaughters: Shelly, Angela and Amy. Betty said that knowing God and doing his work were some of the happiest days of their lives.