Funeral services for Betty Jo Borchers, 85, Bessie resident will be held at 2:00 p.m., Wednesday, May 31, 2017, in the Kiesau Memorial Chapel, officiated by Reverend Harold Goldmann. Burial will conclude in the Union Hatchett Cemetery in Bessie, Oklahoma, under the direction of the Kiesau-Lee Funeral Home. Betty Jo (Lee) Borchers was born July 7, 1931, to William and Della (Crow) Lee in Clinton, Oklahoma, and passed away Friday, May 26, 2017, at her rural Bessie home. She was raised and attended school in Clinton. She married Paul Borchers in May of 1948. They made their home in the Bessie area where they farmed for many years. Besides helping her husband on the farm she joined him in operating the General Mills Elevator in Bessie for many years. She was preceded in death by her parents; her husband; a daughter, Nancy Borchers; and three sisters, Flossie Smith, Bonnie Daughtrey, and Sybil Johnson. She was a member of the Baptist Church, Daughters of the American Revolution and the Red Hatters. She is survived by four daughters, Paula McKee and husband, Bill of Guthrie, Debbie Payton of Cheyenne, Wyoming, Sherri Goeringer and husband, Leo of Bessie, and Patti Parker and husband, Keith of Tulsa, Oklahoma; a sister-in-law, Wilma Lantz; 12 grandchildren; 14 great-grandchildren; and four great-great-grandchildren. Donations may be made in her memory to the American Heart Association, 7272 Greenville Avenue, Dallas. Texas 75231 or you may call to make a donation: 1-800-242- 8721.
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