Betty Jo Hester

Services for Betty Jo Hester will be held at 2:00 p.m. on Thursday, May 30, 2019, at the Community Fellowship Church in Clarendon with Rev. Larry Capranica, officiating. Burial will follow at Citizens Cemetery in Clarendon.

Visitation will be held on Wednesday, May 29, 2019, at Robertson Funeral Directors in Clarendon from 6:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m.

Betty Jo was born to Clay Adam and Lela Mae Houchen Risenhoover on September 10, 1929, in Seminole, Oklahoma. She married Rogers Franklin Hester on June 26, 1947, in Amarillo and together they had three children. She had many talents and was excellent at cooking, baking, sewing, crocheting, knitting, gardening, canning, and making quilts that continue to keep her family and friends warm. She was good at everything and she did it all. Helpmate to husband, Rogers, in everything he did. Very loving to her eight granddaughters and 17 great grandchildren. They all loved and learned so much from their Meme.

She had a servant’s heart and served her family, church family, and community well. She accepted Jesus as her Lord and Savior at a young age and was a good and faithful servant her whole life. She was a life-long Christian in the Baptist church, and a charter member of Community Fellowship Church of Clarendon. Betty and Rogers spent much time helping to build this church from its inception.

She was preceded in death by her lifelong partner and husband, Rogers Franklin Hester; parents, Clay and Lela Mae Risenhoover; brothers, J.M. Risenhoover, C.A. Risenhoover, Theo Risenhoover, Kenneth Risenhoover, Aubrey Risenhoover, and Edwin Risenhoover; sisters, Oletha Fox, Helen McDade, and Katherine Dunham; sister-in-law, Cymantha Earl; brother-in-law, John Hester.

She is survived by one son, two daughters, eight granddaughters, and 17 great-grandchildren. Son, Rogers “Butch” Hester wife Linda and two daughters, Sherelle (husband Kenneth Wanderscheid, son Zachary and wife Alexa, and daughter BreeLin); Shayla (husband Stephen Spisak, sons Trevor and Devin). Two daughters: Gail Greer and daughters Krystal (husband Max Seymour, daughters Allison and Ashley), and Kandice (husband Chris Norrid, daughter Temperance). Pat McCurdy husband Dickie and four daughters, Lesley (husband Dusty Harris, daughters Hailey and Kaitey); Lori (husband Dustin Guinn, daughters Keilee, Lexi, and Mylee); Lindy (husband Jerry Billington, daughters Baylor and Berklee, and son Braxton); Lacy (husband Seth Hall, son Parker, and daughter Rilynn). Sister, Audrey Braddy; sisters-in-law, Mary Jo Rutherford and husband Raymond, Rita Risenhoover, Dorothy Risenhoover, and Sondra Hester; brother-in-law, Vernon Earl; as well as numerous nieces, nephews, other family and a host of friends.

Just like the quilts she made, she was the fabric of our beginnings, weaving threads of kindness, stitching us together with laughter, understanding, and forgiveness. She bound our hearts with fond memories and quilted us together with love. Her love for all believers in Christ, who built and established the Community Fellowship Church, remained uncompromised right to the day she went home to be with our Lord.