Betty Jean Niswonger

Betty Jean Niswonger, age 54, passed away on Sunday, May 18, 2025, at the Destiny Support Home in Garden City, Kansas. She was born on August 9, 1970, to Keith Eugene and Barbara Ann Zehm Niswonger in Leoti, Kansas.

Betty Jean attended Beamgard Learning Center in Atwood, KS, from elementary through high school. During those years and several after, Betty enjoyed competing in

Special Olympics. In 2006, she moved to Destiny Supports in Garden City, where she lived and worked until her death. She loved her pets, her family, and especially her nephew Dylon. Her smiling face and desire to bake everyone cookies will be missed by those who knew and loved her.

Survivors include her mother, Barbara of Tribune, Kansas, her Brother, John & Leslie Niswonger of Wallace, Kansas, and her nephew, Dylon Niswonger of Lakin, Kansas.

Betty is preceded in death by her father, Keith, and one Nephew, Ryan Quaid

Funeral services will be held at the First Baptist Church in Leoti, Kansas, on Wednesday, May 28, 2025, at 2:00 p.m. with Chaplain Michael Gonzalez presiding. Interment will follow at the Carwood Cemetery.

Public visitation will be on Tuesday, May 27, from 11:00 a.m. until 8:00 p.m. at the Price & Sons Funeral Home, 202 North 4th Street, Leoti, KS 67861.

Memorials may be made to “Destiny Support” or “Special Olympics” in care of Price and Sons Funeral Home, PO Box 161, Leoti, Kansas 67861.