Betty Ann (Rutledge) (Leadabrand) Banks

Hastings Resident, Betty Ann (Rutledge) (Leadabrand) Banks passed away on December 1, 2025 at Heritage at College View in Hastings, NE.

Memorial services will be 1 p.m. Saturday, December 6, 2025 at Heritage at College View chapel with Pastor Damen Jensen-Heitmann officiating. A second service will be held in the spring with burial at Mt. Hope cemetery in Kansas. Memorials may be given to the Campbell Fire Department. Condolences may be sent to the family at www.lbvfh.com. Livingston Butler Volland Funeral Home and Cremation Center is serving the family

Betty was born on May 29, 1934 to Dewey and Nettie Rutledge in Red Cloud, Nebraska. On January 2, 1949 she married Raymond Leadabrand. To this union was born five children, Virginia, Philip, Kenneth, Carol, and Roger. Betty attended Red Cloud schools and was a homemaker, mom and wonderful grandma! Raymond and Betty lived in Bird City, Kansas. They later farmed in the Inavale area north of Smith Center. In 1968 they purchased the Campbell Hardware store and Betty helped work there until they sold the store in 1972. Betty was head cook at the Campbell school for two years and wallpapered, painted and cleaned for many friends and family. Betty was a member of the Campbell Junior Women’s Club and the “Original Betty Club”. Raymond and Betty were loving parents who always put their family first. On March 21, 1996 Betty married Robert “Bob” Banks and they continued to live in Campbell until moving to Heritage at College View in Hastings in 2024.

Preceded in death by her parents, stepfather Lloyd Mullen, husband Raymond Leadabrand, sons Philip, Kenneth and Roger, grandson Justin Kumke, brother Ashley (Joyce) Rutledge, sisters, Phyllis (Carl) Stokes, and Peggy (Alfred) Liesec. In laws Duane Eldred, Bill Mountford, and Marvin (Francis) Leadabrand. Brother in-law Don Banks and sister in-law Phyllis (John) Krosse, Sharol (Jerry) Mousel.

She is survived by her husband Bob Banks, daughters Virginia Heinrich & Carol Kumke. Daughter in-law Lorraine Leadabrand. Step- daughters Penny (Mike) Sanders, Bobbi Jo (Tom) Pieper. Grand children Stephanie (Ralph) Williams, Micheal (Kathy) Leadabrand, Jared (Jenny) Koch, Jessica Kumke, James (Jennifer) Kumke, Timothy (Dustie) Leadabrand, and Allison Leadabrand. Step-granddaughters Elisabeth and Emily Sanders. Sisters Louise Mountford and Gaylene (John) Adler. Brother and sister-in-law Charles and Donna Leadabrand, Carol (Barb) Banks. Numerous nieces, nephews and other family members.

Great grandchildren, Garrett (April) Williams, Kevin (Jada) Williams, Ashley (Jared) Ward, Kaitlyn (Isaiah) Bryner, Evan Koch, Barrett Kumke, Emerson Kumke and Autumn Leadabrand.

Great- great grandchildren, Jaycee, Holland, Paityn and Newt Williams, and Cohen Williams.