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Loy Bett Wagner was born September 6, 1916
near Mulberry, Arkansas to Floy Jackson and Grace Adams Jackson and
passed from this life May 28, 2005 in Holdenville, Oklahoma at the age
of 88. Mrs. Wagner was raised in the Pleasant Ridge community and
attended the Pleasant View School.
Woodrow Wagner was born November 9, 1915, also near Mulberry, to Robert
Samuel and Mary Elizabeth (Schuller) Wagner. He passed away on May 29,
2005 on his home place near Holdenville, Oklahoma at the age of 89. He
was raised in the Mulberry area and was a graduate of Mulberry High
School.
Woodrow and Loy Bett were married on October 3, 1936 at
the home of her aunt and uncle in Mulberry. In 1945 they relocated to
California for a short time then finally settled in Oklahoma. They first
made their home on a farm near Horntown owned by his sister. They
remained in Hughes County their entire life together, being married
nearly sixty-eight years.
Loy Bett was a loving homemaker, but had also worked
outside the home at the Moss School cafeteria and later for Seamproof in
Holdenville. Woodrow spent many years working in the Oklahoma oil
fields while also farming and raising livestock. Loy Bett loved to sew
and often made clothes for her family. She also enjoyed gardening and
canned many of the things she grew. Woodrow just loved to meet people
and talk. If he ever met a stranger, they weren't one for long.
Survivors include: their sons and daughters-in-law;
Robert and Corene Wagner of Oklahoma City, Jackson and Joy Wagner of
Moore, and Steve and Mary Wagner of Wetumka; her sisters. Grace Evelyn
James and Bobbie Sue Edwards of Mulberry, Arkansas, JoLetta Frasier
of Vinita, Oklahoma; her brother Fount Jackson of Riverside, California:
their grandchildren Annett Love of Oklahoma City, Roger Wagner of Tampa,
Florida, and Brian Wagner of Wetumka; great grandchildren, Melissa
Spearbeck of Oklahoma City and Morgan Wagner of Wetumka; great-great
grandchildren, Katherin and Merissa Spearbeck of Oklahoma City; along
with several step-grandchildren, nieces, nephews, other relatives and
many friends.
Funeral services were Thursday, June 2, 2005 at 2:00
p.m. at the Living Water Pentecostal Holiness Church with Rev. Don
Williamson and Rev. Joe Bruner officiating. Pallbearers were Jackie
Mills, Robert Brauer, Randy Brown, Richard Nolen, Phillip Lee, Kevin
Nolen, Gerald Roberts, P. D. Brown, Mark Brown, Billy Brown, Larry
Langwell, and Dale Ross. Honorary bearers were Lloyd Stringfellow, Derl
Blaylock, Virgil Gann, and Brian Wagner. Interment was in the Wetumka
Cemetery under the direction of Williamson Funeral Home. |