Billie J. Larson passed peacefully from this earth on Wednesday, October 15, 2008, at the Oklahoma Heart Hospital in Oklahoma City. She was met in heaven by her parents, Henry Albert ad Edna Jane (Dunafon) Dinsmore; four sisters, Blanche, Bertie, Monie and Betty; and one infant brother, James; and many other family and friends.
Her funeral will be 3 p.m. today, October 19, 2008, at Anderson - Burris Funeral Home Chapel, with Rev. Dan O'Daniel officiating. Family and friends will gather right afterward at Christian Church of the Covenant, 1205 S. Cleveland. Burial will be at 1 p.m. Monday in the Oakwood Cemetery in Wewoka. Arrangements are by Anderson - Burris Funeral Home.
Billie was born on March 6, 1929, in Wewoka. She grew up in Wewoka and graduated from Wewoka High School. She married T.R. Ferguson in 1949, and they lived in Oklahoma City. She later married Merlin H. Larson on January 19, 1957, in Sterling, CO, and they made their home in Bartlesville. Billie was a homemaker and also worked as a bookkeeper for various businesses. They moved to Enid in 1971, and then to Roosevelt, Utah, in 1975. While in Utah, she was active with the Pink Ladies Auxilliary and taught Sunday school and kept books for the church. They moved back to Enid in 1977. She was a member of Chisholm Trail Cowboy Church.
Billie will be especially missed by her husband, Merl of the home ; four children, Sherri Dady of the home , Rita Hess and husband, Burlie of Enid, Patti Hanscom and husband, Richard of St. Thomas, Virgin Islands, and Tom Ferguson and wife, Terry of Greeneville, TN; her grandchildren, Robert Eisele and his wife, Randie of Enid, Jennifer Kinney of Stillwater, Shelli Dady and fiance, Nick Stapleton of Stillwater, T.J. Ferguson and his fiance, Tracy Raschke of Greeneville, TN, and Jamie Ferguson Barclay and husband, Vaughn of Birmingham, AL; and her great-grandchildren, Paris, Riley, and Noah Eisele of Enid, Tommy, Brooke, Alaina, Mikey and Emily Ferguson of Greeneville, TN, and David Barclay of Birmingham, AL.
She will also be greatly missed by her two sisters, Laura Good and husband, Vaughn, and Glenda Watson, all of Enid; and two brothers, O.R. "Tokey" Dinsmore and C.E. "Pete" Dinsmore and wife, Sherry, all of Enid; and many nieces and nephews.
Memorials may be made through the funeral home to Chisholm Trail Cowboy Church.
Condolences may be made online to ab@andersonbur ris.com.
