NAME: WALTON WILLIAM BUD BETTS, AGE 76, A LONGTIME COAL-ATOKA COUNTY RESIDENT.

BORN: FEBRUARY 18, 1930 TO CLYDE WILLIAM AND ThERESA (RAY) BETTS AT ATOKA, OK.

PASSED AWAY: SUNDAY, MAY 7, 2006 AT HIS RESIDENCE IN RURAL COAL COUNTY.

AGE: 76 YEARS 2 MONTHS AND 19 DAYS.

EDUCATION: WALTON WAS AN ATOKA HIGH GRADUATE OF THE CLASS OF 47.

OCCUPATION: BUD WORKED AS AN AIRCRAFT AND MISSILE QUALITY CONTROL PERSON AT THE VANDERBURG AIR FORCE BASE IN LOMPOC, CA, retiring IN 1985.

CHURCH AFFILIATION: BUD WAS BAPTIZED IN 1969 AT THE WESTSIDE BAPTIST CHURCH IN LAS CRUCES, NEW MEXICO. HE WAS A MEMBER OF THE MASONIC LODGE #301 IN CALIFORNIA.

BUD SERVED HIS COUNTRY IN THe U.S. NAVY DURING THE COLD WAR.

survived by

DAUGHTER: TWANA SHEA AND HUSBAND CHRIS OF ALVORD, TX.

GRANDCHILDREN: NICK AND JARED SHEA OF ALVORD, TX.

SISTER: ANN DRUXMAN OF AZLE, TX.

BROTHER: JERRIEL BETTS AND WIFE SUE OF ATOKA, OK.

COUSINS: THOMAS TINKER RAY, SUE HILTON, SONNY BETTS, BETTY LOU WOLD, WANDA DOODLE

HOBBS, MARTHA PEKOS

NIECES AND GREAT: TRACY VANN, VICTORIA TREAS, GLENDA DEAVER, AMANDA BETTS, EVELYN

CLEVELAND, SUNNY KAY ODOM, MELISSA DICKENSON, TAMMY ARRIOLA, and

kristi colton.

NEPHEWS AND GREAT: DANN DRUXMAN, CLYDE BETTS, DAVID BETTS, JAY BETTS, KEVIN LEMMON,

JAMES DENNEY, DANNY DRUXMAN, MOSES DRUXMAN, DILLON TREAS, JEFF

CLEVELAND

preceded in death by

MOM: TERESA RAY.

DAD: CLYDE WILLIAM BETTS.

SISTERS: MELBA DENNEY, KLYDIA RAY DAVENPORT, and DOROTHY BETTS.

BROTHERS: RUSSELL AND JAMES BETTS.

DATE OF SERVICES: WEDNESDAY, MAY 10, 2006 AT 2:00 PM.

place of SERVICES: graveside.

interment: wards chapel cemetery ~ atoka, ok.

OFFICIATING: CHAPLAIN RICHARD M. BETTS (LTC) USA RET.

ASSISTING: DAVID RAY.

CASKETBEARERS: DANN DRUXMAN, DANNY DRUXMAN, CLYDE BETTS, DAVID BETTS, JAY BETTS, KENNETH CLEVELAND.

HONORARY CASKETBEARERS: BILL VANN, LARRY TREAS, TINKER RAY, JERRIEL BETTS, SONNY BETTS.

FAMILY NIGHT: TUESDAY 6 TO 8 PM