Graveside services for Mrs. Betty Jean Lanning Wrede, 87, will be held at 10:00 a.m. Thursday at Summit View Cemetery in Guthrie. The Rev. Mike DeMoss, pastor of the First United Methodist Church will officiate. Services are under the direction of Hayes Funeral Home in Guthrie.

Betty was born March 23, 1926 on a farm near Greenfield, Oklahoma. She and her twin brother, Bill, were the youngest of seven children born to William Franklin and Jessie Golsen Lanning. Betty was a basketball player on her high school team until graduation in 1941. She met and married Don Wrede on July 14, 1943. They made their home in Geary, Oklahoma, where they began raising their only son, Ron. The family moved to Guthrie in 1957, when she began working for the Douglas Red Bud Grocery. Betty later took a job as secretary to the City Clerk of Guthrie and then eight years later became City Clerk until her retirement in 1991. Betty was a member of the First United Methodist Church in Guthrie and a lifetime member of the Order of Eastern Star.

Betty passed into God's care July 8, 2013. She was preceded in death by her husband, Don Wrede, her parents and her six siblings, Bertha, Merle, Frank, Earl, Lloyd and Bill. She is survived by her son, Ron and his wife Linda, her two grandchildren Amanda and Andrew and his lovely wife, Erin and her new great-granddaughter, Robby Kate.

The family would like to express their appreciation to the staff at Ash Street Place for their assistance and compassionate care of their mother and grandmother.

In lieu of flowers, the family asks that donations be made to the Capital Renovation Fund of the First United Methodist Church, P.O. Box 249, Guthrie, OK 73044.

You may sign the online guestbook at www.hayesfh.com