Betty Jean Beshear
August 25, 1924 - November 18, 2017
Betty Jean Eldridge Beshear, age 93 died Saturday, November 18, 2017. She was born August 25, 1924 in Brooken, Ok. She moved to Wood Bridge, California in 1969 after her husband died. She worked as a nurse’s aide at several hospitals in Lodi, California for a total of 37 years. She retired at age 77 and moved back to Oklahoma. She was a master at painting, sewing, crocheting, knitting, quilting, embroidery, making porcelain dolls, jewelry, and any craft she attempted. She loved learning, reading, word find puzzles, and her family. She was preceded in death by her husband, Benny Harrison Beshear; parents, Mary Elizabeth Powell Eldridge, Marrow Jerome Eldridge, step-mother Sintha Elizabeth Kemp Eldridge; brother: Charles Eldridge; sister, Barbara Teshira; son, Franky “Peewee” Beshear; daughter, Mary Linda Kurtz; and grandson, Dustin Beshear. Survivors include children, Benny & Linda Beshear of Okmulgee, Clyde Beshear of Detroit Lakes, Minnesota, Connie Mills of Lodi California; 15 grandchildren, 30 great-grandchildren, and 2 great-great-grandchildren, sister, Bonnie Spicer, brothers, Carl, Clifton, and Calvin Eldridge, and numerous nieces and nephews. No funeral services are scheduled. Arrangements and cremations services have been entrusted to the McClendon-Winters Funeral Home of Okmulgee.
Betty Jean Eldridge Beshear, age 93 died Saturday, November 18, 2017. She was born August 25, 1924 in Brooken, Ok. She moved to Wood Bridge, California in 1969 after her husband died. She worked as a nurse’s aide at several hospitals... View Obituary & Service Information