Elizabeth (Betty) Robertson Boatner, 90, of Mount Pleasant died Monday, May 14, 2007, in Mount Pleasant.

Services will be held at 10:30 a.m. Wednesday, May 16 at Bates-Cooper-Sloan Chapel with Dr. Clint Davis officiating. Interment will follow at Forest Lawn Memorial Park under the direction of Bates-Cooper-Sloan Funeral Home.

Pallbearers will be Kerry Wootten, Bill Ratliff, Robert Nance, Jerry Stacks, Joe Robertson and Parker Key.

Mrs. Boatner was born on May 28, 1916, in Murchison, the daughter of Walter P. Robertson and Lucy M. (Reynolds) Robertson. She moved to Mount Pleasant from Marshall in 1947 with her husband Cortez and family to open a retail furniture store, Home Furniture Company, in the 400 block of North Jefferson Ave. In 1951, they moved the business to 104 East First Street, where they gradually acquired other buildings on the block and renamed the business Boatner's Home Furniture. She was an active member of the First Baptist Church.

She is survived by her two sons and daughters-in-law, John and Julann Boatner of Paris and Jerry and Suzy Boatner of Mount Pleasant; grandsons and spouses, Brett and Alisa Boatner of Mount Pleasant and Brad and DeeAnn Boatner of Allen; granddaughter, Amy Boatner of Phoenix, Ariz.; great-grandchildren, Mia Barrett and Denton Boatner; and her sister, Barbara Key of Dallas.