Betty Sue Cason

Betty Sue Cason Snow, 85, passed from this life on December 26, 2024. She was born July 20, 1939 in Brooksville, Florida to the late, Horace Lloyd Smith and Vera Mae Smith. She was raised on Howell Avenue and was a graduate of Hernando High School, Class of 1957, where she was elected first female President of the Student Council and was 1957 Homecoming Queen. Betty was a sixth generation Floridian on her father’s side. She was very interested in history and family genealogy. Her DNA shows that, the majority of, her ancestors are from England and Northwest Europe, a large percentage from Wales and smaller percentage from Ireland, Scotland, Norway and Germanic Europe. She was a descendant of Degory Priest, who was a passenger on the Mayflower. Betty is survived by her granddaughter, Rachel Nicole Booth; her son, Julian; and Stacy Windham, her friend and overseer. She is preceded in death by her parents; her only brother, Jesse Horace Smith; both of her husbands, George Milford Cason and Robert Gerald Snow; and three of her children, George Daniel Cason, James Horace Cason, and Stephen Wayne Cason. Her husband, George Cason was in the Air Force when they married, and she moved to Fairfield, California where two of her children were born at Travis Air Force Base. Upon moving back to Brooksville in 1961, she worked for Dr. Richard A. Henry for five years before moving to Jacksonville, where Stephen was born. In 1969 they returned home and lived in Citrus County, across the street from the Withlacoochee State Forest on HWY 491, one mile north of the Hernando County line. She lived there for the rest of her life. Betty retired from Department of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles, Division of Driver Licenses, as Regional Administrator of the Lakeland Region; she was in charge of ten driver license offices in four counties: Citrus, Hernando, Pasco and Polk. She was a member of Eden Baptist Church, Brooksville, Florida, and served as Sunday School Secretary for over 20 years. Her other memberships included, The Order of Eastern Star, Floral City Lodge 164; the General Society of Mayflower Descendants, James Chilton Colony; the National Society of the Daughters of the American Revolution, Annuttaliga Chapter, Brooksville, Florida; and the United Daughters of the Confederacy, Betty Lykes Stringer Chapter 2407, Brooksville, Florida. Her primary hobby, aside from cooking and canning, was making artistic quilts, with special emphasis on machine embroidered quilts. Betty’s Celebration of Life will be held at 11:00 AM on Tuesday, January 7, 2025 at the Lake Lindsey Cemetery, 22308 Lake Lindsey Road, Brooksville, Florida 34601, with Rev. Damont Drake officiating. In lieu of flowers, donations may be made in memory of Betty Cason, to the Lake Lindsey Cemetery, 22308 Lake Lindsey Road, Brooksville, Florida 34601. Arrangements have been placed under the care of the Rick Gooding Funeral Home Chiefland Chapel, with locations in Cross City 352-498-5400 and Chiefland 352-493-0050. Please sign the online guest book at rickgoodingfuneralhomes.com

Betty Sue Cason

July 20, 1939 - December 26, 2024