Obit of Lewis, Belva "Jo" - Comanche County, Oklahoma

Submitted by:  Gene Phillips <okarchives@comcast.net>  3 Dec 2004
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:Sunset Memorial Gardens--Lawton OK

Becker Funeral Home, Inc. - Lawton OK  
Belva "Jo" Lewis

Age 68, Faxon, Funeral services will be 1:30 PM Friday in the First 
Baptist Church of Chattanooga with Rev. Carl Rudek, Pastor, First Baptist 
Church, Chattanooga, and Rev. Hainds Laird, Chaplain, Indian Territory 
Home Health and Hospice, officiating.

Mrs. Lewis died Monday at her residence.

Burial will be in the Sunset Memorial Gardens under the direction of the 
Becker Funeral Home.

She was born in rural Faxon, Oklahoma on August 30, 1936 to Orba and 
Trilley (Sleeper) Standridge.  She married Bill Lewis in Lawton on July 
10, 1982.  She worked twelve years for the Lawton Public Schools at 
Swinney Elementary as a cafeteria manager, before having to retire because 
of her illness in 1994.  She was a member of the First Baptist Church in 
Faxon.

Survivors include her husband of the home; two sons, Alan M. Swanson of 
Lawton and John Glenn Swanson, Jr., of Tampa, Florida; two daughters, 
Shawnna D. Breit and her husband, John, and Tammy D. Keller, all of 
Lawton; two stepdaughters, Teresa Detwiler of Chatteroy, Washington and 
Lenna Lewis of Missouri; fourteen grandchildren, Kelly, Kendra and Kristi 
Carman, Misty Turner, Sheldon Keller, Niya Swanson, Erika, Jamie and 
Ashlee Breit, Joseph Keller, Angela, Alesha, Andria and Amber Trudell; 
three great grandchildren, Kaile, Kassidy and Kaylan Carman; a brother, 
Orba Standridge, Jr. of Elgin; a sister, Patsy Payne of Lone Grove; her 
mother, Trilley Standridge of Lawton; and a special friend, Ronda Rhodes 
of Faxon.

Her father, two daughters, Kendra Swanson and Glennice Gipson; and a 
grandchild, Haylee L. Petering, preceded her in death.

Memorial contributions may be made to the Cleo Craig Memorial Cancer 
Research Foundation, 5002 SW Lee Blvd., Lawton, Oklahoma 73505 or to the 
Indian Territory Home Health and Hospice II, 402 ½ N. Broadway, Walters, 
Oklahoma 73572.

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