“She’s a wonderful cook,” he
quickly volunteered. On the menu that night? Filet. Richards said she learned to cook
“DURING THE MOST CHALLENGING TIMES, YOU SEE THE TRUE CORE OF SOMEONE’S CHARACTER. I’VE SEEN BETTY BE TOUGH AND THAT TOUGHNESS IS BUILT ON HER FAITH. THAT FAITH IS THE
CORNERSTONE FOR US, IT GIVES YOU THE STRENGTH TO GO ON.”
—SHANNON EVERETT, CHIEF FINANCIAL OFFICER, RICH LOGISTICS
as a girl from her mother “over the tele- phone,” calling her mom at work to find out how to fix this or that for supper. These days she finds herself in the role of kitchen advisor, having her grand- daughters over before Thanksgiving for a stuffing and pie cooking marathon. “I go from pot to pot, making sure
“I guess, like her late husband
D.W., there was that day I started with trucks and did the same thing in Camden,” Quarles recalled. “My first wife hated trucks. Needless to say, that didn’t last long.” A couple of years ago their friend-
ship started to evolve, Richards said, with the help of a Christmas tree.
26 “She had a party at her condo for
Memorial Day, and she still had it up the last couple of weeks of April and had to get it down,” said Quarles. “He came over and took it down
and we talked for hours,” said Richards. “I invited him back for dinner and that probably did it. It just kind of evolved from there.”
they’re doing everything right,” she said. “I really got it from my grandma; I made dressing and it tasted like corn- bread and water. She said you need to do this and this…. I put half biscuits and half cornbread in mine, and then eggs and salt and pepper and sage and cream of celery and cream of chicken soups. If it’s not moist enough, you add milk to it. That’s about all I do.” Her love of cooking has another
outlet, too: In 2011, she bought the historic 1869 McDonald-Wait Newton House on Cantrell Road in Little Rock – better known as the Packet House. She had it renovated and reopened it as the
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