ENID — Graveside funeral service for Bea Harper, 87, will be 10 a.m. today, July 3, 2012, in Pleasant View Cemetery, Jet. Gib Clark will officiate. Arrangements are under the direction of Goodwin Funeral Home, Cherokee.

Memorials may be given to Nescatunga Fire Department through Goodwin Funeral Home, 106 W. 2nd St., Cherokee, OK 73728.

Bea Harper was born Jan. 8, 1925, on the Caywood/Cofield farm, north of Salt Plains Lake, where she resided most of her life.

During World War II, she worked in Wichita, then returned home to raise turkeys with her mother, increasing their operation from 100 to 20,000 birds each year, before retiring in 1994.

Bea was the youngest daughter of Loren and Bessie Cofield Caywood and departed this life Saturday, June 30, 2012, at her home, at the age of 87.

She is survived by her daughter, Linda Nulik and husband Duane; three grandsons, Jason, Justin and wife Michelle, and Jeff of Caldwell, Kan.; brother, Earl Caywood and wife Marlene of Huntington Beach, Calif.; cousin, Leaton Cofield of Kerrville, Texas; brother-in-law, Harold Miller of Hutchinson, Kan.; and sisters-in-law, Norma Caywood of Madera, Calif., and Linda Caywood of Jet, Okla.

She was preceded in death by her parents; husband, Brownie Harper; brothers, Vern Caywood and Jim Caywood; and sister, Velma Miller.

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