Okfuskee, OK - Obit - Betts, Stephen Arthur, 1886-1960

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Submitted by:    Donna Barnes
Email address:   okfuskee@losdos.org
Date submitted:  5/16/1999
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Source:  Okemah Daily Leader, Sunday, Oct. 16, 1960

Betts Rites Are Monday

Funeral services for Stephen Arthur Beets (sic), 73, will be held Monday at 2 
p.m. in the Webb-Benson Funeral home, Rev. Lynn Jones officiating.
Burial will followin the Highland cemetery.  He died Friday in the local 
hospital.
Born Dec. 1, 1886 in Pontiac, Mich., he came to Oklahoma before Statehood, 
living first at Ardmore before moving to Wetumka, then to Cromwell where he has 
lived since that time.
He was a veteran of World War I, and a member of the American Legion of Okemah.
Survivors include his wife Mrs. Dovie Betts, Okmulgee; two daughters, Mrs. Velma 
Yaholar, and Mrs. Geneva Hillman, Okmulgee; one granddaughter; one grandson; 
four great great grandchildren; and one sister, Mrs. Eva Johnson, Wetumka.
Pallbearers will be J. H. King, A. L. Maddon, Bernie Eaton, Everet Liston, S. C. 
Dillman and Tom Smith, Sr.