With great joy, Betty Bingham went to be with her Lord on July 30, 2026. She was born June 10, 1941 to Ray and Hilda Phillips. She was married to Herbert Shaw Bingham for 49 years and they had one daughter, Lesley V. Bingham.

Mrs. Bingham graduated from Marked Tree High School, then earned a BSE from Ouachita Baptist University. She later earned her MSE from Arkansas State University. She was an educator, as well as a partner with Shaw in their farming business. She was a member of Immanuel Baptist Church in Little Rock and a prior member of Walnut Street Baptist Church in Jonesboro.

She was preceded in death by her husband, her parents, brothers, Harry Ray Phillips, Jr, of Tempe, AZ, George Phillips of Bay, AR, Jim Phillips of AZ, and sister Billie Phillips of Marked Tree, AR. Survivors include sister June Lowder of Van Buren, AR, brother Bill Phillips of Chicopee, MA, daughter Lesley Bingham, son-in-law Chris Tackett of Little Rock, AR, and many nieces and nephews.

Memorials can be made to Walnut Street Baptist Church: 1910 Scenic Rd. Jonesboro, AR 72401.

Visitation will be at Emerson Funeral home at 1 pm on Monday August 3, 2026 with a service directly after at 2 pm. Interment will follow at Jonesboro Memorial Park Cemetery, where she will be laid to rest beside her loving husband.

Pallbearers will be Gary Allen, Larry Henderson, Brent Henderson, Jim Gillis, Sid Banks, and Clarence Woodard.

For God so loved the world, that He gave His only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in Him should not perish, but have everlasting life.

For God sent not His Son into the world to condemn the world; but that the world through Him might be saved.

He that believeth in Him is not condemned: but he that believeth not is condemned already, because he hath not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God.

And this is the condemnation, that light is come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil.

For every one that doeth evil hateth the light, neither cometh to the light, lest his deeds should be reproved.

But he that doeth truth cometh to the light, that his deeds may be made manifest, that they are wrought in God.

After these things came Jesus and His disciples into the land of Judaea; and there He tarried with them, and baptized.

John 3:16 – 22

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The thief cometh not, but for to steal, and to kill, and to destroy: I am come that they might have life, and that they might have it more abundantly.

John 10:10

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