Beth Sellers

Funeral services for Mary Elizabeth (Beth) Watson Roberts Sellers, 82, of Gainesville, are scheduled for 10:00 AM on Saturday, June 13, 2020, at Geo. J. Carroll & Son Funeral Home with Rev. Larry Kremling officiating.  Interment will follow at Fairview Cemetery.  The family will receive friends from 6:00 to 7:00 PM on Friday, June 12 at the funeral home.

Mrs. Sellers passed on June 8, 2020 in Gainesville, Texas.

Beth was born on July 31, 1937 in Eastern Cooke County, Texas to parents Benjamin Harvey and Elva Jewel (Delisle) Watson.  After a childhood spent on the Old Denton Road, she graduated early from Gainesville High School and went to college at Texas Women’s University in Denton.  There she met and married Tom Roberts Sr. in 1956.  She moved to South Texas with him and had three children.  In 1974, she divorced and moved back to North Texas.  In 1984, she married John Sellers.

Mrs. Sellers was a teacher for many years, eventually earning a Bachelor of Arts degree from Pan American College in Edinburg, TX.  She said she was an elementary teacher who made a mistake and got her Special Education Certificate, then was only offered jobs in Special Ed.  Mrs. Sellers retired in 1994.

Survivors include: husband John Sellers of Gainesville; son Tom Roberts Jr.; daughter Kim Hardie and husband Don Funk; son-in-law Alex Quezada; grandchildren: Carin Scaff Campbell (Sid), Chanelle Quezada, Marcus Quezada, Kara Criswell Mason (Ryah), Courtney Criswell, Victoria Roberts, and Kylee Roberts; great-grandchildren: Lyra and Inara Mason, Jayden Poling, Kayce Criswell, Caleb Melton, Chelsea Fleckenstein, Garrett and Carmen Driskill; great-great-granddaughter Eivor; sister Linda Brumlow; sister Nancy Hoedebeck (Danny); sister Janette Smith (Leighton); and Bonus Granddaughter Jessika Kimbrell.

Mrs. Sellers was preceded in death by: her parents; and daughter Ginger Quezada.

Memorial contributions may be made to Home Hospice of Cooke, Grayson & Fannin Counties.