NAME: BETHEL DEAN (BENTON) MCBRAYER, AGE 80, LONGTIME ATOKA COUNTY RESIDENT. BORN: JANUARY 20,1918, AT TUSHKA, OKLA TO LEWIS AND LAURA (WHITE) BENTON. PASSED AWAY: TUESDAY, DECEMBER 22, 1998 AT CARE INN NURSING CENTER IN DENISON, TX. AGE: 80 YEARS 11 MONTHS AND 2 DAYS MARRIED: TRUMAN CARL MCBRAYER. OCCUPATION: AMONG THE DIFFERENT OCCUPATIONS SHE HAD INCLUDED A JOB WITH LYTON INDUSTRIES IN WHICH SHE WAS A GLASS BLOWER, MAKING ELECTRONIC PARTS. ALTHOUGH SHE RAISED HER CHILDREN IN REDWOOD CITY, CA, SHE CHOSE TO RETIRE IN COUPEVILLE, WASHINGTON ON WHIDBEY ISLAND IN THE PUGET SOUND AREA WHERE SHE PARTICIPATED IN COMMUNITY AFFAIRS. SHE WAS COUPEVILLE'S SENIOR REPRESENTATIVE AS MOTHER HUBBARD, A TITLE SHE HELD FOR TWO CONSECUTIVE YEARS. A PAINTER AND PHOTOGRAPHER, SHE WAS AN ACTIVE MEMBER OF THE COUPEVILLE ARTISTS GUILD. SHE VOLUNTEERED HER TIME AND ARTISTIC TALENTS TO THE MENTALLY RETARDED ASSOCIATION WHERE SHE TAUGHT THESE SPECIAL INDIVIDUALS PAINTING. SHE RETURNED TO ATOKA IN 1996. SURVIVED BY SONS: CARL LEWIS MCBRAYER OF ATOKA, OK. DONALD MCBRAYER AND WIFE ROSE OF ANTLERS, OK. JAMES DEAN MCBRAYER AND WIFE BEVERLY OF ATOKA, OK. KEITH MCBRAYER AND WIFE LYN OF ASHLAND, OR. DAUGHTERS: LAURA K. (MCBRAYER) SHEFFIELD AND HUSBAND RICHARD OF SACRAMENTO, CA. PAMELA HOPE LAUR AND HUSBAND RICH OF KENT, WA. PAULA JOYJOHNSON OF KENT, WA. 14 GRANDCHILDREN, 10 GREAT GRANDCHILDREN. SISTER: ELIZABETH MUENSTER OF FT. WORTH, TX. 12 NEPHEWS, 2 NIECES. PRECEDED IN DEATH BY PARENTS: LEWIS AND LAURA BENTON. FORMER HUSBAND: TRUMAN CARL MCBRAYER OF ATOKA ON JUNE 24, 1998. SISTERS: GOLDIE, JEWEL, AND ESTHER. BROTHERS: HERSCHEL, BILL, HOWARD, J. R., AND L. T.

DATE OF SERVICES: SUNDAY, DECEMBER 27, 1998 AT 2:00 P.M. PLACE OF SERVICES: BROWN'S FUNERAL CHAPEL ~ ATOKA, OK. INTERMENT: NO BURIAL MRS. MCBRAYER WAS CREMATED. OFFICIATING: REV. JAMES CROWSON. EULOGY BY: DAUGHTER, LAURA MCBRAYER.