Betty Ellen Brothers

© Cheyenne Star

15 Aug 2002

Submitted by: Wanda Purcell

Betty Ellen Brothers was born November 8, 1941 in Elk City, Oklahoma, to Dorothy and Everett Brothers. She passed away August 9, 2002 in University Hospital, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma at the age of 60 years, 9 months and 1 day.

Betty was raised in the Grimes community and graduated from Berlin High School in 1959.

She made her home in Sayre until moving to Cheyenne to live with her cousins, Josephine and Oliver Daugherty. She remained there until entering the Cheyenne Convalescent Home.

Betty loved to paint and was an accomplished musician. She could play any musical instrument but was especially talented with the fiddle and guitar.

She had been a member of the Erick Kitchen Band and the Sayre Goodtime Band and enjoyed playing for many years at dances and nursing homes.

Betty was preceded in death by her parents; one brother, E. W. Brothers and a dear friend, Jack Criswell.

Burial will take place in the Dempsey Cemetery, Dempsey, Roger Mills County, Oklahoma.

Survivors include numerous cousins and many friends.