DEPUE — Betty Belle Hallberg, 80, of DePue died at 8:455 a.m. Friday, Oct. 12, 2012, at Heartland Health Care Center in Henry following a courageous, year-long battle with brain cancer.

She was born Oct. 20, 1931, in DePue to Vasper Talmage Lowery and Anna Mae Harmon. She married Russell Glen Halberg Sr. Jan. 22, 1950, at the Bureau County Courthouse. He died April 13, 1993.

She worked at Westclox from 1960 to 1965, Yuvan's Supper Club in DePue from 1974 to 1979 and retired from Harper Wyman in Princeton in 1994 after 18 years. She was a member of the DePue First Congregational Church of Christ where she was president of the Women's Guild, a sponsor of Pilgrim Fellowship, superintendent of the Sunday School Junior Department and choir member. She was also a a trustee of the Selby Township Public Library in DePue, member of the DePue Booster Club and a graduate of DePue High School.