Betty Canzoneri Danielson
February 19, 1928 – October 19, 2015
Betty Canzoneri Danielson, 87, passed away Monday October 19, 2015. Betty was born February 19, 1928, to Lillian Bradley Ray and David Brown Ray, in Oxford, Mississippi. An older sister, Mary Kathryn, and a brother, James Thomas, welcomed her into the family. The small country community of Hamilton, Mississippi, was home until the beginning of World War II, when the family moved several places, ending up in New Orleans, Louisiana, where Betty graduated from Sophie Bell Wright High School for Girls! Returning to Mississippi for College, she there met her first husband, George Arden Canzoneri. They married on April 4, 1952, and lived in Louisville, Kentucky, where George was a student at Southern Baptist Theological Seminary. Upon graduation they returned to Mississippi and pastored churches until going to Brazil with the Southern Baptist Foreign Mission Board in 1959. In 1966, after returning to the States, they came to Florida and resided in Davie, where George died in 1987. Over the years four children were added to the family: a daughter, Gale, in 1954; a son, David, in 1956, another daughter, Cathy, in 1959, and a son, Marcus, in 1963. They gave Betty the grandchildren she loved to talk about – Michael, Richelle, Christian, Claire, Sam, and Ana – with Summer, Danny and Dyan joining the family when their father married Cathy. These grandchildren gave her the great-grandchildren – Kyle, Jacob, Ella, Ava, Robert, Reagan, Ariana, Lorenzo, Vincent, Delilah and a Baby Boy on the way. Betty worked for 22 years, and retired from Broward Community College, where she made many friendships that have remained cherished friends through the years. She became a resident of Covenant Village on August 1, 1993 when she married retired Covenant pastor Roger Danielson, who was already a resident. Roger died in 1996 much too soon – and Betty remained. Her ashes will be buried in Mississippi next to her first husband, George Arden Canzoneri. She was loved deeply by her family and friends, and will be missed.
An inurnment will follow at a later date in Jackson, Mississippi.
Lucas Funeral Home (Keller) 817-753-6800