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August 27, 1919 –  March 8, 2012  Betty Lounette (Sluder) Kidd, 92, loving daughter, wife, mother, grandmother, great-grandmother and great-great-grandmother stepped into eternal life with her Lord and Savior Jesus Christ on March 8, 2012 at Pecan Tree Health and Rehabilitation Center.
Funeral services are set for 2:00 p.m. Monday, March 12th at Clement-Keel Chapel with Pastors Larry and Kathy Eberhart of Family Life Church officiating. Visitation will be from 2:00 to 4:00 Sunday afternoon at Clement-Keel Funeral Home.

Lounette was born to Early Erving and Fannie (Harper) Sluder in northeast Cooke County on August 27, 1919. She married Tom Russell Kidd in Myra, Texas on March 19, 1939. They lived most of their years in Gainesville and Cooke County. Mrs. Kidd was a homemaker who loved to cook and was a great cook. She was most notably known for her fried chicken and yeast rolls by her children, grandchildren and friends. Lounette was a great seamstress. She loved to sew for her mother and later for her four daughters. She made all their dresses for school. She also played the guitar. For a while, Lounette had a program on the local radio station where she played her guitar and sang gospel songs with her sister, Wanda Kidd.

Lounette was preceded in death by her parents, E.E. and Fannie Sluder; husband, T.R. Kidd; brothers, Herman and David Sluder; grandson, Dwayne Kidd and great-granddaughter, Crystal Parsons.

Survivors include her children, Thomas and John Kidd, Sharon Prestage and Linda Christian, Carolyn and David Griffith and Sheila and Garry Sewell, all of Gainesville; sister, Ruth Oâ??Gorman of Keller; sister and brother-in-law, Wanda and Virgil Kidd of Gainesville; brother, John Sluder of Opelika, Alabama; 14 grandchildren, 31 great-grandchildren and 6 great-great-grandchildren.
Pallbearers will be grandsons, Curtis and Tony Parsons, Keith and Russell Griffith and Chad and Marc Sewell. Honorary pallbearers are granddaughters, Teresa Shaw, Jana Mickey, Shawna Kidd, Lanna Dishman, Charlotte McMurray, Christie Cheaney and Cynthia Odom.

Interment will be at Fairview Cemetery. Arrangements are under the direction of Clement-Keel Funeral Home