Funeral service for Rozella Bymaster will be 2:00 p.m. Monday, October 31, 2016 at Western Hills Church of Christ with Harley Davidson, Minister officiating.

Burial will follow in Sunset Memorial Gardens under the direction of Becker-Rabon Funeral Home.

The family will greet friends from 3:00 to 5:00 pm Sunday at the funeral home.

Rozella Bymaster went to meet her Lord on October 27, 2016. Rozella was born to Clarence (Buster) and Rose Minnick on January 14, 1934. She grew up near Ringwood, Oklahoma where she attended school all 12 years, was a cheerleader, won several speech contests, had the female lead in several plays and was an active member and officer of 4-H and FHA.  She also worked at the Ringwood Café, Crockett's Café and McSpadden Telephone Company. She joined Ringwood United Methodist Church as a young teenager.

Rozella married Raymond Bymaster, the love of her life, May 31, 1952, 2 weeks after high school graduation and they enjoyed 58½ years together as husband and wife.  Along the way, 4 children were born: Willa Jean and her husband, Mike Saindon of Florissant, MO; Dr. Dimmick Lee Bymaster and his wife, Charlene of Batesville, AR; Loretta Kay "Remy" and her husband, Randy Goode of Lawton; Bradley Mark Bymaster and his wife, Telesa of Cache.  They were also blessed with 10 grandchildren and 15 great-grandchildren.

Rozella thoroughly enjoyed being a wife, mother and grand-mother.  While living in Vinita from 1956 to 1969, she was an active member in PTA, a home-room mother (1 year per child), a Cub Scouts (younger Boy Scouts) Den Mother, a Campfire leader, a Sunday School teacher and a member of the VFW and American Legion Auxiliaries.  Hobbies included sewing, gardening, reading, playing games, watching TV, and enjoying friends, neighbors and, most importantly, family.

After all their kids started school, she started back to work, first as receptionist/secretary at Southeast Elementary School (Vinita Public Schools), then as Deputy County Clerk in Craig County. In 1969 she started working at the Department of Human Services in Lawton. Upon her husband's retirement they relocated to Vinita where she was transferred to DHS at Miami then to DHS at Vinita where she retired on January 31, 1990.  They both enjoyed farm life with the livestock, cows, chickens, dogs, birds, wildlife and gardening.  They were members and officers of Otterbein United Methodist Church.

Those preceding her in death are her loving husband, Raymond (who left a big hole in her life), her parents, her baby brother, Jackie, a special cousin and friend, LaJoy Sturgeon and her husband, Jack, 2 twin great-granddaughters Brookelyn Leigh and Kaira Rae Harris, a brother-in-law, Chester (Chet) Bymaster and his wife, Mary Lu, a sister-in-law, Pauline Bymaster, a brother-in-law, Bob Mills and a sister-in-law, Alice Minnick.

Loved ones left behind include their children and spouses, 10 grandchildren and their spouses, and 13 great grandchildren, her brother, Freddie Wayne Minnick of Monticello, IN, 2 sisters-in-law and special friends, Willa Mae Mills of Edmond and Walletha (Leedie) Broomfield and her husband, Gerald of Benton, LA, her brother-in-law, Dimmick F. Bymaster of Macomb, IL, cousins Bill Wheeler and his wife, Jenny of Wichita, KS, Ladonna Koon of Enid, California cousins Gary (and wife, Marilyn) Gilbert & Carolyn Graham, Virgil Minnick of Helena and many other relatives and friends.

In lieu of flowers, please make memorial contributions to Gideon's International at www.gideons.org or Batesville's Gideons P.O. Box 2982, Batesville, AR 72503