Betty Jo Lawley

A Celebration of the Life of Betty Jo Lawley will take place at Reed-Culver Funeral Home with Pastor Randy Parker officiating on Friday, June 28th, 2024 at 10:00 AM. The family will receive visitors on Thursday, June 27th, 2024, beginning at 1:00 PM until 6:00 PM at Reed-Culver Funeral Home. She will be laid to rest at Levi Cookson Cemetery with her family.

Pallbearers for Betty include Dalton Roberts, Garrett Hale, Walker Lawley, Eli Lawley, Tommy E. Lawley, Reese Lawley, Hunter Lawley, Tater Lawley, and Sam Lawley.

Her honorary pallbearers include Ronnie Cookson, Reece Cookson, Stoney Lawley, Tommy Lawley Jr., Chuck Lawley, Kevin Lawley, Joe Hale, Warren Lawley, Travis Lawley, and Rob Lawley.

Betty Jo (Cookson) Lawley was born on February 19th, 1927 in Qualls, OK, the daughter of Reece McCracken Cookson and Katherine Francis (Risenhover) Cookson. She grew up with four brothers and sisters, Jimmie R. Cookson, Sandford M. Cookson, Mary Cookson-Novak, and Thelma Cookson-Powers. She attended school for a while and then decided to marry and raise a family. She was the proud mother of four sons, Robert Lee Lawley, Tommy Reese Lawley, Charles Andrew Lawley and Jimmy Joe Lawley. She earned a living as a clerk at the Woolworths Department Store. She liked people and spending time talking with them. When she wasn’t working, she was feeding her family her homemade chicken and dumplings and her light as a feather rolls. She loved to cook. She enjoyed a little free time doing work picture puzzles and word puzzles. She enjoyed a night out playing Bingo and was even more excited going to the casino with Odie Belle Breshears, her best friend. She was a wonderful daughter, mother, grandmother and friend. She was kind, considerate and always had time to talk to you. Her grandchildren were her pride and joy and there wasn’t anything she wouldn’t do for them. She loved keeping up with all of their activities and was their biggest fan. Her health began to fail and she passed from this life on June 22nd, 2024 in Sapulpa, OK. She was 97 years old and lived life to its fullest.

Betty Jo is preceded in death by her grandparents, her mother and father, one son, Tommy Reese Lawley, two brothers, Jimmie Cookson and Sandford Cookson, and two sisters, Mary Novak and Thelma Powers.

Those left to cherish her memory include three sons, Robert Lawley and wife Nola B. of Sapulpa, OK, Charles Andrew Lawley and wife Valerie of Sand Springs, OK, and Jimmie Joe Lawley and wife Karen of Dallas, TX, and daughter in law, Charlotte Lawley also of Sapulpa. She lives on in her twelve grandchildren, Tonya Lawley, Chuck Lawley, Travis Lawley, Rob Lawley and wife Jessie, Stoney Lawley and wife Stacey, Kevin Lawley and wife Shannon, Tera Crace and Brian, Warren Lawley and wife Maggie, Tommy Lawley Jr. and wife Denetta, Kaylene Hale and husband Joe, and Farrah Smock. She also leaves 19 great grandchildren, and 17 great great grandchildren, as well as many nieces, nephews, cousins and a host of friends and loved ones far too numerous to mention.

A Celebration of the Life of Betty Jo Lawley will take place at Reed-Culver Funeral Home with Pastor Randy Parker officiating on Friday, June 28th, 2024 at 10:00 AM. The family will receive visitors on Thursday, June 27th, 2024, beginning at 1:00 PM until 6:00 PM at Reed-Culver Funeral Home. She will be laid to rest at Levi Cookson Cemetery with her family.

Pallbearers for Betty include Dalton Roberts, Garrett Hale, Walker Lawley, Eli Lawley, Tommy E. Lawley, Reese Lawley, Hunter Lawley, Tater Lawley, and Sam Lawley.

Her honorary pallbearers include Ronnie Cookson, Reece Cookson, Stoney Lawley, Tommy Lawley Jr., Chuck Lawley, Kevin Lawley, Joe Hale, Warren Lawley, Travis Lawley, and Rob Lawley.