Bette Robison

Bette Robison passed away in her home on Oct. 9, 2014, at the age of 82. She was a beloved wife, mother, grandmother, great-grandmother, sister, aunt and friend. There was a Memorial Service on Tuesday, Oct. 14, at Messinger Mortuary, 12065 N. Saguaro Blvd.

Bette was laid to rest at the Paradise Memorial Gardens, 9300 E Shea Blvd. Scottsdale.

A Memorial fund with the American Heart Association was set up in her honor and donations may be made by going to this link, http://tinyurl.com/pv3677b.

Bette was an amazing cook and delighted her family and friends with her mouth-watering home cooking, especially her rolls, pies, fudge, divinity and popcorn balls. She was a wonderful bridge player, loved fishing, water skiing, boating, and shopping. Bette was born and raised on a farm in Kansas by her parents and nine siblings. She learned to work hard with many responsibilities one finds on a farm, including weed pulling and picking tomato bugs off plants, which served her well as she went on to business school.

She moved to the Seattle, Wash. area and became an executive secretary for the vice president of Boeing in Seattle. After moving to California, she was a manager at Figurettes and of an engineering office.

She came to Arizona in 1970 and became a Realtor in 1974, working for several companies in the valley including Ben Brookes and Associates, Century 21, was the top sales person at MCO Realty, and was a Broker with her own company, Robison Realty and The Shelter Group.

Bette and her husband, Ariel have resided in Fountain Hills since 1985.

Bette also had her own interior design company, Interior Designs by Bette Ann and she worked closely with her husband who built approximately 20 homes in the Fountain Hills area.