Janette Kay Ballard

Funeral services for Janette Kay (Beck) Ballard will be conducted on Friday, October 27th, 2023 at 10:00 AM at Reed-Culver Chapel with Pastor Alan McBride officiating. Her family will host a visitation on Thursday, October 26th, 2023 beginning at 1:00 PM until 5:00 PM at Reed-Culver Funeral Home in Tahlequah. She will be laid to rest at Greenleaf Cemetery next to her daughter, Casandra Winsett.

Pallbearers for Janette include Jason Ragsdale, Aaron Ragsdale, Tyler Nail, Chandler Nail, Cadon Beck, and Trace Beck. Her honorary pallbearers include William Ragsdale, Jasper Ragsdale, David Beck, Keith Beck, and Darrel (Bubby) Beck.

Janette Kay Ballard was born on November 5th, 1971 in Gravette, AR. She was the daughter of Charles Beck and Cathy (Ragsdale) Jackson. She grew up in the Green Country area around Tahlequah with three brothers, Louis, James, Michael, and one sister, Andrea. When she was a baby, she always had to be drove around to go to sleep. She also used to play basketball and softball. She finished school in Tahlequah, attending college at Northeastern State University. She loved her family and was the proud mother of two daughters and one son, Casandra, Kaitlyn, and Kyle. She loved being their mother and often found herself with her nieces and nephews in her keeping as well. She was a hard worker, always working countless hours and doing anything possible to make sure her children had what they needed and more. Her children and family always came first and foremost in her life. She enjoyed cooking and would always show up to a function with her best peanut butter pie or cheesecake. She also enjoyed true crime shows like NCIS, Nancy Grace, and Law and Order. She was a loving daughter, mother, sister, aunt, cousin, and friend. She loved the holidays and would always find a way to make everyone feel included. She was a genuine, kind, generous, loving and good hearted person. A Christian by faith, the Lord called this hard working woman home from her many labors on October 19th, 2023 in Tahlequah, OK. She was 51 years old. She leaves an empty place no one can fill.

Janette is preceded in death by her grandparents, Ben and Margie (Stanley) Ragsdale, Woodrow and Margie (Henshaw) Beck and her daughter, Cassandra Winsett. She joins her stepmother, Donna (Nottingham) Beck and several aunts and uncles, Lois Ragsdale Sarten, Stella Ragsdale Valincourt, Tim Ragsdale, Dale Ragsdale, Joe Wayne Ragsdale, Tommy Ragsdale, Blaine Ragsdale, Larry Ragsdale, and Mark Arnwine.

Those left to cherish her memory include her children, Kaitlyn Ballard and companion Trey Lair of Tahlequah, and her son, Kyle Ballard and wife Michelle of Tulsa, OK. She leaves her father, Charles “Charlie” Beck and wife Carol, and mother Cathy Jackson and husband Michael Jackson, as well as brothers and sister, Louis Nottingham and wife Gina of Park Hill, OK, James Beck and wife Chastity of Kansas, OK, Michael Jackson of Tahlequah, Andrea Butts and husband Samuel of Tahlequah. She leaves her aunts and uncles, Jasper Ragsdale and wife Helen of Rose, OK, Teresa Adams of Tahlequah, Darrel Beck and wife Tobi of Colcord, OK, Don Beck and wife Betty of Kansas, OK, David Beck and Patty of Colcord, OK, Keith Beck and wife Loretta of Colcord and Darrel “Bubba” Beck and wife Terra of Kansas, OK. Along with numerous cousins, friends, and loved ones.

Fond memories and expressions of sympathy may be shared at www.reedculver.com for the Ballard family.