A memorial service for Betty Delores Connell will be 4:00 p.m., Friday, June 2, 2017 at NewHaven Church, 1202 NW 47 ^th Street, with Dr. Chad Fetzer serving as minister.

Private family burial will be in Fairmount Cemetery, San Angelo, Texas.  Arrangements are under direction of Becker-Rabon Funeral Home.

Betty Delores Connell died Sunday, May 28, 2017 in Lawton.  She was born July 15, 1920 in Sulphur Springs, Kansas, to William and Grace Roberts.  She received her BA degree from Oklahoma College for Women and her Masters of Religious Education from Southwestern Baptist Seminary.  Betty married Walter Connell in 1946.  She taught school and served with her husband in Baptist churches in Alabama, California, Texas, Oklahoma and New Mexico.  This included six years at First Baptist Church in Lawton.  Betty also assisted her husband in teaching at the seminary in Monrovia, Liberia, West Africa.  She loved supporting and helping to develop new churches.

She enjoyed teaching, cooking and playing the piano.

Survivors include two daughters, Ann Bentley of Sanibel, Florida; Rachel Smith and husband, Don of Lawton ;one son, Mark Connell and wife, Brenda of Barrington, Illinois; seven grandchildren, Tisha Bentley of Oklahoma City, Oklahoma; Chelle Bryce and husband Matt also of Oklahoma City; Lea Anne Turner and husband Ryan of Dallas, Texas; Laura Coleman and husband, Steve J. of Lawton; Chrissi Connell of Chicago, Illinois; Amy Mehring and husband John of Chicago, Illinois; and Josh Connell and wife Rachel of Indiana.  She also had 11 great grandchildren.

She was preceded in death by her husband, her parents, four brothers and one sister.

Memorial contributions may be made to Samaritan's Purse, P.O. Box 3000, Boone, NC 28607.