Betty
Jo Heinrichs
Monday, July 27, 1931 ---- Tuesday, October 22, 2013
Betty Jo Heinrichs,
resident of Owasso, passed from this life on Tuesday, October 22,
2013 at the Evergreen Care Center. She was 82 years of age. Betty
Jo was born July 27, 1931 in Collinsville to Olin and Hazel (Lee)
Burnside. She was raised and received her education there, graduating
from Collinsville High School. She then attended Cottey College and
later Oklahoma A & M (now Oklahoma State University) where she
received her teaching degree. On May 25, 1952 Betty Jo married her
high school sweetheart Raymond Lee Heinrichs at the Collinsville Community
Church. Betty Jo was a retired elementary teacher in the Collinsville
Public Schools where she shared her passion for teaching.
She was a longtime member of the Community Church where she sang in
the choir; Betty Jo had also been a member of the PEO Chapter X for
64 years.
Those that survive include her daughter – Malinda Palmer and
husband Charles; son-in-law Danny Fleetwood and wife Angela; grandchildren
Deaven Mattox and husband John; Morgan Gillispie; Callie Fleetwood;
Zephaniah Fleetwood; step grandchildren Brian Palmer and wife Samantha;
Haley Palmer; great grandchild Josie Gray Mattox and step great grandchild
Aiden Dean Mayes. Betty Jo was preceded in death by her parents, husband
Raymond Lee on January 2, 2004, a daughter Hazel Denise Fleetwood
and a sister Patricia Wilson.
Visitation for Betty
Jo will be held Wednesday, October 23, 2013 from 5pm – 7pm at Mowery
Funeral Service; and graveside services will be Thursday at 11:00 am
at Ridgelawn Cemetery, Collinsville. The family has requested that those
who would like to honor Betty Jo’s memory may do so by contributing
to the Memorial Fund at Collinsville Community Church, 1423 West Oak
St., Collinsville, OK 74021. Arrangements and services have been entrusted
to Mowery Funeral Service of Owasso.
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