Betty Ann Nagel

Betty Ann Nagel, the feisty redhead, passed away on May 25, 2024 in Tulare, Ca. Betty was born in 1923 on her grandfather's ranch on Lovers Lane in Tulare, to Nancy Mae Young (Wells) and John Dale Young Betty graduated from Compton Junior College and began her wartime work with Douglas Aircraft Company. Following her family to Exeter she worked at Rankin Academy in the book room for Tex Rankin. While trying to retrieve a flight book from one of the planes, she met her future husband and the love of her life, Robert Earl Nagel who was only too eager to assist her. Their marriage lasted for 75 years until he passed away in 2019. At various times throughout her life, she also worked as a dairy herd bookkeeper and a substitute rural mail carrier, but her full-time job was a farm wife and mother. Betty was always on the go. Among the many organizations she contributed her time to were: Methodist Women, PTA, Tulare County Historical Society which included many hours at the Mooney Grove Museum, Tulare County Cattle Women, and the YMCA where she was the first woman president in Tulare County. Betty is survived by her sister Eva Drummond of Galt, CA. Her children, daughter Dale Emken and her husband, Walt, son Rob Nagel and his wife, Beverley and daughter Jan Jackson, 7 grandchildren, 10 great grandchildren, 2 great, great grandchildren, and numerous nieces and nephews. In Heaven she can be found with a pile of books and her favorite munchies, listening to swing music with her husband Bob, or riding her horse in the high country of the Sierra Nevada Mountains, on the way to her beloved fathers camp. At her request, no services are planned.