May 12, 1958 ~ November 21, 2021
Bixby - Debbie "Deb" Fae Rachal was an incredible wife, mother, sister, daughter and friend. She left this world after a long hard-fought battle with cancer on November 21st, 2021. She was 63 years old.
All her life Debbie kept in contact with friends and classmates from Bartlesville. She cherished her friendships all her life. She was also a very devoted wife and mother (and grandmother), and was loved and adored by all.
Debbie was born to Ollie Mae Lee and Rodney Lee on May 12th, 1958 in Bartlesville, OK. She was a graduate from Sooner High School class of 1976. She met her future husband Duane Rachal a few years later and the two were married in South Padre Island, TX in 1980.
She filled her life alternating from being a homemaker and working for a Credit Union as well as several CPAs as an administrative assistant.
She spent 1987-1997 living in the Houston, TX area where she was active in Women's AGLOW Bible fellowship, then from 1998-2008 living in the Denver, CO area where she worked at a Credit Union and for a CPA. Finally in 2008, she moved to Bixby, OK and worked at a CPA until retiring in 2016. Upon retirement, she became a full-time grandma and also devoted countless hours tracing family genealogy and ancestry, and organizing 100 years' worth of family photos.
She was very proud of her great-cousin (mother's cousin) Ben Johnson, an Oscar winning actor and real-life cowboy. Debbie was part of the ribbon-cutting ceremony for the Ben Johnson Cowboy Museum in Pawhuska, OK in the summer of 2019.
She was preceded in death by her father in 2005 and her mother in 2014.
She is survived by her sisters JoAnn Rogers and Linda Bean (and her family), her loving husband Duane, her daughter Dorie Jean and son-in-law Joe Ensinia (and their family), her son John David and daughter-in-law Melody Means Rachal (and their family), and her son Jared Mark Rachal.