Funeral services for Mrs. Betty Sue Evans Rodriguez will be on Saturday, December 26, 2020, at Brookhaven Funeral Home (894 Natchez Drive) in Brookhaven, MS, at 2:00 PM with burial to follow in the Bethel Community Church Cemetery in Brookhaven, MS. Elder Luke Addison will be officiating the services with Brookhaven Funeral Home in charge of arrangements. Visitation will be at Brookhaven Funeral Home on Saturday, December 26, 2020, from 12:00 PM until 2:00 PM.

Mrs. Rodriguez, 75, of Melville, LA, passed from this life on Monday, December 14, 2020, at Our Lady of the Lake Hospital in Baton Rouge, LA.  She was born on January 29, 1945, in McCall Creek, MS, to Boyce Evans and Edna Mae Jones Evans.  She worked for many years in clerical and retail positions at various locations. She was a loving wife, mother, grandmother, great-grandmother, foster mother and friend.

Always a compassionate care-giver, Betty found a special ministry as a foster mother for dozens of children over the years. She provided a safe and loving home and made life better for many children who faced great challenges.

Betty was an excellent homemaker and spent her free time crafting. Family gatherings and holidays were a priority, especially Christmas. She brought joy to her family and friends with homemade snacks and handmade gifts. One of her special talents was cooking, and she maintained a vast cookbook collection where she gleaned recipes that delighted her family and friends.

Betty loved reading and promoted reading in the lives of young people around her. She was a game show afficionado. Her favorite game shows always centered on trivia and knowledge, like "Jeopardy!" But she also loved games that required lots of strategy like Phase 10 and Dominoes.  Her combined loved of reading and competitive nature made her the reigning Scrabble champion of the family, and she defended her title at many family gatherings.

Betty was especially fond of little dogs and loved to spoil them.  She leaves behind a sweet little chihuahua who will miss her dearly "Annie."

Preceding her in death were her father, Boyce Evans; husband, Arthur Joseph Rodriguez; daughter, Vicki Lynette Ward; step-daughter Tamitha Jean Ryder; step-grandson Joey Harrington; and brother Charles Albert Evans.

Survivors are her mother, Edna Mae Evans; brother Don Evans (Linda); sister Sandra Berryhill Alesich (Raymond); Step-children, Brian Keith Rodriguez (Dajuana), Byron Kirt Rodriguez (Ramona), and Cindy Harrington (Gerald) ;grandchildren, Nikki Kilcrease, Ashley Kilcrease, Kirstie Sebastien, Erica Rodriguez, Bryanna Rodriguez, Blake Rodriguez, Chelsea Rodriguez, Gerald Ducote and Neica Harrington ; 17  great-grandchildren; and 1 great-great grandchild; and a host of family and friends.