Betty June Croushorn

Betty June Croushorn died in Springfield on August 6, 2022. She was 86. Born on March 4, 1936, with Welsh-American roots that shaped the table more than the flag. She grew up believing that showing up was the first craft. She assembled frames that would hold other people's years. A frame assembler glue brush hung stayed clean enough to trust. Colleagues still mention a frame assembler glue brush hung. She and Thomas married in 1960 and raised two sons without needing an audience. After Thomas's death in 2015, she held to quiet habits—coffee before dawn, a tended yard, a voice on the phone that still checked in. Neighbors remember a shovel borrowed and returned sharper. She liked early mornings before the heat or the noise. She died in Springfield, among streets she never needed to explain. The work gloves still keep the shape of a grip. What remains is not a legend but a practice: showing up, keeping a promise, leaving a place better than you found it. Her life was the kind America is built from and too often forgets to name.