Bettye Jo Harrison

Bettye (McCarty) Harrison, was born on a farm North of Apache, on March 6, 1930, to Delbert and Julia (Taylor) McCarty and went to meet her Savior on Tuesday, January 26, 2016, in Hobart, Oklahoma. She started school in a rural, one room school house and finished her school days at Apache High School. Although she didn't graduate with her class she went back to school and got her G.E.D. at age 65. She accepted the Lord as her Savior at 18 years of age and taught an adult Sunday School class for many years. Bettye, Steve, and Dee Ann married Cloyd Harrison and his two sons Alfred and Cotton on November 9, 1960, and had been married 43 years at Cloyd's death in 2003. Bettye loved God, her country, her children, grandchildren, great and great-great grandchildren, also her Pastor Lynn Richardson and her church family.

Survivors include 2 sons; Steve Gee and wife Darlene, Tulia, TX,
Cotton Harrison and wife Marie, El Reno, OK,
1 daughter; DeeAnn Hazle and husband Ronnie, Mountain View, OK
11 grandchildren; Tony Harrison and wife Kim, Mountain View, OK
Stephanie Barnasivitch and husband John, Canyon, TX
Steven Gee and wife Stacey, Forney, TX
Michael Harrison and wife Shelly, Mustang, OK
Jodie Cowart husband Devin, Canyon, TX
Brandy David and husband Michael, Elk City, OK
Michele Belger, and Amy Harris, Moore, OK
Scott Hazle and wife Tiffany, Roosevelt, OK
Rusell Gee and wife Chelsea, Blanchard, OK
Kari Cruzan and husband Lafe, Midwest City, OK
26 great grandchildren
2 great-great grandchildren
2 sisters; Billie McDonald, Lawton, OK
Evelyn John, Lawton, OK
numerous nieces and nephews


She is preceded in death by her parents, her husband Cloyd, a step-son Alfred Harrison, 2 grandchildren Shannon Hazle and James David Gee, 2 sisters Pauline Tooman and Louise Moydell, 3 brothers Irwin McCarty, Marvin McCarty, and Pete McCarty


Funeral Services: 2:00 p.m., Friday, January 29 , 2016
Pentecostal Holiness Church, Mountain View, OK
Burial will follow at Fairview Cemetery, Apache, OK, under the direction Ray & Martha's Funeral Home, Mountain View, OK