Officially, Betty Greenleaf left behind  four children when she died at her new home in Fort Worth, Texas, last week.

But daughter Julie Jones said that doesn’t begin to tell her mother’s story. Greenleaf, 70, is survived by hundreds of children — the foster children she and husband Albert helped raise in Androscoggin County.

“They had foster children for 35 years, and I’m 38 years old, so it had a big impact on my life,” Jones said Sunday. “I know that she was in contact with a lot of them right up to the end. So she’s had a big impact on a lot of people.”

In a 2001 profile in the Sun Journal, Betty estimated that she’d helped raise 132 children in 26 years. As president of the Tri-County Foster/Adoptive Association, she represented  more than 200 foster families at one time.

Diagnosed with Lou Gehrig’s Disease in 2008, Betty and Albert moved to Fort Worth this summer to be with Jones and her family. Greenleaf died at the home they shared on Nov. 16.

“She was diagnosed in 2008, but she had gotten progressively worse by the time she moved down here in August of this year,” Jones said. “We just knew it was time for them to be with us.”

The family hosted a memorial service in Texas this weekend, but they’re planning a Maine memorial from 1 to 4 p.m. Dec. 12 at Fortin Funeral Home in Auburn.

She’s survived by her husband of 44 years, four children and five grandchildren.