A graveside service remembering the life of Betty Lou Wells will be held at 2:00 p.m. Friday, July 5, 2024 in Fort Sill National Cemetery, Elgin.

Arrangements are under direction of Becker-Rabon Funeral Home.

Betty Lou Wells died Sunday, June 23, 2024 in Lawton, Oklahoma at the age of 84.  She was born October 25, 1939 in Bokchito, Oklahoma to Jess and Virginia (Stone) Burns.  She was raised on a farm and graduated from high school in Utica, Oklahoma.  She later attended business college.  She married Bennie R. Wells in Ardmore on September 20, 1958.  She accompanied her husband during his military career.  Together they lived in France and Germany and had the opportunity to tour many other European countries.  In 1974 they were stationed at Fort Sill and made Lawton their home.

Betty was primarily a homemaker but had worked at Fort Sill for a short time as director of ceramics at the craft shop and provided childcare in her home.  She had also volunteered her time serving as a teacher's aid and Cub Scout leader.

She is survived by her husband, of the home; her son and daughter in law, Guy D. and Rodena Wells; her sister and brother-in-law, Patricia A. and James Pickens; her sister-in-law and brother-in-law, Patricia A. and Harold Criswell; grandchildren, Ashley Thompson and her husband, Samuel and John Montgomery; a great granddaughter, Peyton Thompson; nieces, LaQuita Ray and Kimberly Bowen ;and nephews, Ryan Wells and Bobby Burghart.

She was preceded in death by an infant daughter, Benna Monet, her daughter-in-law, Michelle Wells, a sister, Dorothy Burghart, and a brother-in-law, Walter Keith Wells.