Bethel N. Cox Haddock-Sowder

Funeral services for Bethel Nadeen Haddock-Sowder will be held on Friday, September 4th, 2015, at 2;00 PM at the Reed-Culver Chapel with Pastor Jim Landalius officiating. Visitation will be held on Thursday, September 3rd, 2015 from noon until 6:00 PM at Reed-Culver Chapel. Interment will follow at Tahlequah City Cemetery. Online condolences for Bethel’s family may be left at www.reedculver.com.

Bethel Nadeen Haddock-Sowder was born on July 16th, 1920, the daughter of Henry Calvin and Laura Ann (Brady) Cox, in Natural Dam, AR. She grew up in a household with brothers and sisters, Charley, Arlie(Ned), Dan, Arvel (Bill)Cox, Velma Decocq, Dorothy Wilcox, and Ruth Reeder. Bethel attended school at Rosedale, AR, until the family moved to Bald Hill Community south of Tahlequah, OK in 1937. Bethel attended Tahlequah High School. On July 4th, 1938, she married John Richard Haddock. Except for a short period of time, the family lived in the Stone Chapel Community until 1958 when they moved to the Keys Community. Where the Del Rancho now stands, the Wagon Wheel restaurant is where Bethel made a wide variety of her homemade pies and desserts. She also worked at the Dairy Prince. She was an excellent cook, liked raising cattle, farming, raising beautiful gardens and canning her own produce. There was always time to play a game of Bingo or to do a little sewing. She was a devoted wife, mother, grandmother, stepmother, friend, and devoted Christian. She was a faithful member of the Seven Day Adventist Church of Tahlequah, OK and attended every week. Her husband Richard passed from this life on October 25th, 1989. She married Christopher Sowder December 8th, 1991 and they moved to Heritage Place in 1997. After Chris passed in 2000, Bethel moved to Glenpool, OK to be closer to her son, Kenneth and his family. She continued to study her Bible and remained a faithful prayer warrior until she could no longer keep working. The Lord called this good and faithful servant home from her labors on August 31st, 2015 in Glenpool after attaining the age of 95.

Bethel is preceded in death by her parents, her husbands, Richard and Christopher, brothers Charley, Ned, Dan, Bill, and sister, Velma, stepson Gary Sowder, sister-in-law, Agnes Casady, and brother-in-law, James Haddock.

Those left to cherish her memory include her son, Kenneth Haddock and wife Rheta of Bixby, OK, her grandson, Michael Haddock and wife Wendy of Shreveport, LA, and her great grandchildren, Benjamin, Lucas, Kathryn, and Leah Haddock of Shreveport, LA, sisters Dorothy Wilcox of Tahlequah and Ruth Reeder of Denver, Co. She leaves her sisters-in-law, Donna Cox of Tahlequah, Helen Cox of Overland Park, KS, Sylvia Cox of Arlington, Tx. step daughter Vera Baker of Tahlequah, Ok., Sandra Abramowecz of Hulbert, OK, and Christine Reed of Fairview, OK. Her legacy lives on in her nine grandchildren, 16 great grandchildren, seven step great grandchildren, 22 nieces and nephews, and many friends and loved ones. In Lieu of flowers, the family requests donations be made to Alzheimers association of your choice.