Betty Goen, 83 year old Woodward resident, passed away on September 20th, 2024, at her home. Her funeral service will be held on Monday, September 30th at 11:00 am in the Trinity Lutheran Church with Pastor McClellan officiating. Interment will follow in Gnadenfeld Cemetery.

Arrangements are under the direction on of Billings Funeral Home.

Visitation will be open from 9-5 on Friday, September 27, and noon-7 on Sunday at Billings Funeral Home.

Betty Jane Goen was born November 17, 1940, in Woodward, Oklahoma to Ted D. and Esther Meier (nee Feil). Betty was baptized in May 1941 at Evangelica Lutheran Church on Tangier Road. She was confirmed, in May 1953 at Trinity Lutheran Church in Woodward, Oklahoma.

Betty was reared on the family farm on Tangier Road. She went to school at Tangier through her sophomore year. Then had to finish at Fargo High School, graduating in May 1959. Betty received a certificate in Executive Secretarial training from Wichita Business College in May 1960. She received a certificate in Computer Programming from OSU School of Technology Training in Okmulgee, Oklahoma in May 1969, graduating third out of 303 total graduates. She was voted Mrs. Electronic Data Processing Queen in December 1968 and was in the Christmas parade in Okmulgee.

On July 10, 1965, Betty married Stanford Norman Goen, Jr. at Immanuel Lutheran Church in Oklahoma City. To this union were born two children, a daughter, Cheryl Yvette and a son, Michael Paul. They were divorced in 1976. Norman died on August 12, 2003, leaving a step-daughter Katherine Denise and a daughter, Traci LeAnn, in addition to Cheryl and Michael.

Betty worked as a secretary for many years. When they moved to Floydada, Texas 1972, she worked as a Tax Accountant for 34 years before retiring in 2006 and moving back to the family farm, where she raised cows.

As a young teenager, Betty taught herself to play the piano and was an organist for 40 years at Trinity Lutheran (Woodward), Immanuel Lutheran (OKC), Trinity Lutheran (Gallup, New Mexico) and St. Paul Lutheran (Plainview, Texas.) She loved gardening and supplied floral arrangements for the altar at the church in Plainview and Woodward. Betty's favorite needlework was crochet and several of her original pattern designs were printed in crochet magazines. She was also an avid reader. Betty learned to make tied quilts at St. Paul Lutheran church. She helped make thousands of quilts to give away locally or throughout the world by Lutheran World Relief and Orphan Grain Train.

She was preceded in death by her parents. Betty is survived by her daughter, Cheryl Lyon and husband Philip of Owasso, Oklahoma; son, Michael Goen and wife Dena of Lubbock, Texas; six grandchildren, Eric Lyon, Zachary Lyon, Jessica Lyon, Tyler Goen, Abbie Goen and Emma Goen and two great grandchildren, Aubri Lyon and Henry Lyon; sister, Sharon Meier of Woodward; brother, Larry Meier and wife Gwen of Woodward.

In lieu of flowers, memorial contributions may be made to the Trinity Lutheran Church or Gnadenfeld Cemetery with the funeral home accepting the memorials.

Remembrances may be shared online at www.billingsfuneralhomewoodward.com