The Life Story of Betty Jo (Colvin) Lucas Jobe

My life began on a little farm in Byres, OK on October 3, 1931. My mother's name was Bessie (Schellford) Colvin; Bessie was married to my father George A. (Joe) Colvin. Everyone around Byres called my daddy "Buster." I don't know how he came up with the nickname (Joe), but it stayed with him the rest of his life. My mother and daddy also had another child, a boy named Clyde. He was one and a half years younger than me. I was born during the depression years. When I was two and a half years old, daddy married Vivian May Davidson. We moved shortly after to Post Oak, AR. We didn't stay there but a couple of years, then moved to Heber Springs, AR, where my siblings Victor, George Allen and Joyce were born. We moved to Acton, IN where I went to work at my first job at a food processing plant on the conveyer belt where all the tomatoes came in (just did this for one season). I finished high school in Heber Springs, then went one year at the University of Arkansas and worked weekends at a drug store. After one year I came home and went to work at RCA. My sibling Dianne was born during this time. In 1953, I married George Lucas; we lived in Acton, IN, and I had my two children, George and Judy. We moved in June of 1957 to Phoenix, Arizona. During that time my husband George came down with emphysema. I went to work at Union Rock/Benson Contracting since George was really sick. I worked from 11 P.M. to 7 A.M. while the kids and George slept. My occupation for several years was a switchboard operator and the payroll. My third and last child, Barbara, was born. I switched employment to Cyr and Evans Company as a dispatcher since they paid me enough to change to a daytime job. It was there where I met Virgil; he was a bulldozer operator, then he moved up to superintendent for the company. On January 23, 1967, George, the father of all my three children, passed away. He was 46 years old and died from heart failure. In 1968, Virgil and I started dating and one year later we decided to live together, just to see how things would go. We lived in Mesa, AZ at that time. Just before Christmas in 1973, we went to Las Vegas, NV to get married. We built a house on six acres in Chandler, AZ and lived there till April of 1976. We then bought 100 acres in Indianola, OK, and our house burned down. We rebuilt our home. This is where my love for gardening started. I worked for a period of time at the Motor Inn in McAlester, OK as a switchboard operator and then switched to working for several years as a seamstress at Seamproof Company (changed the name to Komars). We moved to McAlester, OK and lived there several years. When the grandchildren were old enough, we moved to Tulsa, OK in June of 1988. I started working for Lowrance Electronics Company. After three years of working there, I came down with a chemically induced asthma. I never worked for another employer for the rest of my life. I lost my mate on April 26, 2000; we were married for twenty-seven good years together. My life became filled with my grandsons, Aaron and Clayton Ward, sports activities, gardening, traveling to see family and friends and taking cruises with my daughter, Barbara Ward and my loving companion, Sherlock (dog given to me by my grandson, Aaron and his wife, Ashley). Survived by a son, George Lucas of Tulsa, OK; two daughters, Barbara Ward and her husband Don of Tulsa, OK, and Judy Palmer and her husband John of Pocatello, ID; a sister, Dianne Earnhart, her husband, Pete of McCordsville, IN; grandchildren, Clayton and Heather Ward of Owasso, OK, Aaron and Ashley Ward of Broken Arrow, OK, JW and Mickey Palmer of Pocatello, ID, Kimberly Palmer of Pocatello, ID and great-grandchildren, R.J. Palmer, Trinity Palmer and Kaitlin Miller all of Pocatello, ID, Brooklyn Ward, Tanden Ward and Jett Ward, all of Tulsa, OK.

Betty Jobe was 83 years old when she passed away June 21, 2015 in Tulsa, OK.

Memorial Service 3:00 P.M., Tuesday, July 14, 2015
Moore's Eastlawn Chapel
Reception following the memorial service:
Barbara Ward's Home

Moore's Eastlawn Chapel
918-622-1155