Betty Parr McAlister was born and raised in Oklahoma City, attending Nichols Hills elementary and then Harding. She started college at the University of Oklahoma majoring in Interior Design. After her freshman year, she transferred to the University of Colorado where she joined Alpha Chi Omega sorority. Near the end of her sophomore year, she married Bill McAlister, Donna McAlister’s older brother.
Bill was an Army officer who had just completed Army helicopter training and was on his way to an assignment in Germany. In the summer of 1962, Betty joined Bill in Germany. They lived in private German housing near an Army airfield in a rural area about 60 miles west of Frankfurt. Betty and Bill traveled to several countries and cities in Europe during a two year period. They enjoyed the companionship of many officer couples from throughout the United States who served in the same Army Aviation unit.
Betty and Bill returned to Oklahoma in 1964 and Betty resumed her college studies at O.U. She received her degree in Interior Design from O.U. in 1966. She later attended what was then known as Central State College (now University of Central OK), working on her masters in home economics and seeking a teaching certificate. Betty performed her practice teaching at Classen in the spring of 1968. In the meantime, Bill attended night law school at Oklahoma City University.
Betty was active in the wives club of Bill’s law school fraternity, serving as the president when her husband was a senior. Following a combination business trip and vacation to California in August of 1968, Betty became ill and died unexpectedly.
(Submitted by Robert Sandlin #46539933)
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The Oklahoman, Tuesday, Aug 20, 1968: Funerals--Mrs Betty McAlister, 26, 1901 NW 32, 10 am Wednesday, Westminster Presbyterian Church with burial in Rose Hill Cemetery.
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Wedding announcement, Feb 18, 1962: planned for late April
Rehearsal dinner, Sunday, Apr 15, 1962: on Friday at Sportsman Club; wedding Saturday, Apr 21, at Westminster Prebysterian Church
Parents: Wiliam Gamble Parr & Catherine Roberts
Husband: William Craig McAlister b. 1939
Bill was an Army officer who had just completed Army helicopter training and was on his way to an assignment in Germany. In the summer of 1962, Betty joined Bill in Germany. They lived in private German housing near an Army airfield in a rural area about 60 miles west of Frankfurt. Betty and Bill traveled to several countries and cities in Europe during a two year period. They enjoyed the companionship of many officer couples from throughout the United States who served in the same Army Aviation unit.
Betty and Bill returned to Oklahoma in 1964 and Betty resumed her college studies at O.U. She received her degree in Interior Design from O.U. in 1966. She later attended what was then known as Central State College (now University of Central OK), working on her masters in home economics and seeking a teaching certificate. Betty performed her practice teaching at Classen in the spring of 1968. In the meantime, Bill attended night law school at Oklahoma City University.
Betty was active in the wives club of Bill’s law school fraternity, serving as the president when her husband was a senior. Following a combination business trip and vacation to California in August of 1968, Betty became ill and died unexpectedly.
(Submitted by Robert Sandlin #46539933)
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The Oklahoman, Tuesday, Aug 20, 1968: Funerals--Mrs Betty McAlister, 26, 1901 NW 32, 10 am Wednesday, Westminster Presbyterian Church with burial in Rose Hill Cemetery.
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Wedding announcement, Feb 18, 1962: planned for late April
Rehearsal dinner, Sunday, Apr 15, 1962: on Friday at Sportsman Club; wedding Saturday, Apr 21, at Westminster Prebysterian Church
Parents: Wiliam Gamble Parr & Catherine Roberts
Husband: William Craig McAlister b. 1939
Betty Parr McAlister was born and raised in Oklahoma City, attending Nichols Hills elementary and then Harding. She started college at the University of Oklahoma majoring in Interior Design. After her freshman year, she transferred to the University of Colorado where she joined Alpha Chi Omega sorority. Near the end of her sophomore year, she married Bill McAlister, Donna McAlister’s older brother.
Bill was an Army officer who had just completed Army helicopter training and was on his way to an assignment in Germany. In the summer of 1962, Betty joined Bill in Germany. They lived in private German housing near an Army airfield in a rural area about 60 miles west of Frankfurt. Betty and Bill traveled to several countries and cities in Europe during a two year period. They enjoyed the companionship of many officer couples from throughout the United States who served in the same Army Aviation unit.
Betty and Bill returned to Oklahoma in 1964 and Betty resumed her college studies at O.U. She received her degree in Interior Design from O.U. in 1966. She later attended what was then known as Central State College (now University of Central OK), working on her masters in home economics and seeking a teaching certificate. Betty performed her practice teaching at Classen in the spring of 1968. In the meantime, Bill attended night law school at Oklahoma City University.
Betty was active in the wives club of Bill’s law school fraternity, serving as the president when her husband was a senior. Following a combination business trip and vacation to California in August of 1968, Betty became ill and died unexpectedly.
(Submitted by Robert Sandlin #46539933)
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The Oklahoman, Tuesday, Aug 20, 1968: Funerals--Mrs Betty McAlister, 26, 1901 NW 32, 10 am Wednesday, Westminster Presbyterian Church with burial in Rose Hill Cemetery.
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Wedding announcement, Feb 18, 1962: planned for late April
Rehearsal dinner, Sunday, Apr 15, 1962: on Friday at Sportsman Club; wedding Saturday, Apr 21, at Westminster Prebysterian Church
Parents: Wiliam Gamble Parr & Catherine Roberts
Husband: William Craig McAlister b. 1939
Bill was an Army officer who had just completed Army helicopter training and was on his way to an assignment in Germany. In the summer of 1962, Betty joined Bill in Germany. They lived in private German housing near an Army airfield in a rural area about 60 miles west of Frankfurt. Betty and Bill traveled to several countries and cities in Europe during a two year period. They enjoyed the companionship of many officer couples from throughout the United States who served in the same Army Aviation unit.
Betty and Bill returned to Oklahoma in 1964 and Betty resumed her college studies at O.U. She received her degree in Interior Design from O.U. in 1966. She later attended what was then known as Central State College (now University of Central OK), working on her masters in home economics and seeking a teaching certificate. Betty performed her practice teaching at Classen in the spring of 1968. In the meantime, Bill attended night law school at Oklahoma City University.
Betty was active in the wives club of Bill’s law school fraternity, serving as the president when her husband was a senior. Following a combination business trip and vacation to California in August of 1968, Betty became ill and died unexpectedly.
(Submitted by Robert Sandlin #46539933)
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The Oklahoman, Tuesday, Aug 20, 1968: Funerals--Mrs Betty McAlister, 26, 1901 NW 32, 10 am Wednesday, Westminster Presbyterian Church with burial in Rose Hill Cemetery.
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Wedding announcement, Feb 18, 1962: planned for late April
Rehearsal dinner, Sunday, Apr 15, 1962: on Friday at Sportsman Club; wedding Saturday, Apr 21, at Westminster Prebysterian Church
Parents: Wiliam Gamble Parr & Catherine Roberts
Husband: William Craig McAlister b. 1939
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