Beverly Jo Roots

August 5, 1934 - December 17, 2020

Celebration of life service for Beverly Jo Roots will be 2:00 p.m. Tuesday, December 22, 2020, at the Marshall Funeral Home Chapel with Rev. Rod Rieger officiating. Interment will be in the Hardtner Cemetery under the direction of Marshall Funeral Home of Alva. The service will be live streamed on Marshall Funeral Home facebook page. Beverly Jo Roots, daughter of the late Jess and Bertha Leota (Parker) Daughhetee, was born August 5, 1934 in Alfalfa County, Oklahoma, and passed away December 17, 2020 in Cherokee, Oklahoma, at the age of 86 years, 4 months, and 12 days. Beverly graduated Burlington High School. On May 28, 1953, she was united in marriage to Richard Dean Roots in Medicine Lodge, Kansas. They lived in Holcomb, Kansas for 25, years. There she worked on the Bill Rapp Farm where she bailed hay, set irrigation pipe, cut and hauled wheat, corn, and milo, worked cattle and all the things that farm life entails. They moved to Cherokee in 1985 where she was a homemaker and helpmeet to Richard. She has lived at the home of her son-in-law and daughter, Jason and Yolanda Tullis for the past 2 years. Besides here parents, she was preceded in death by an infant son in June, 1954; her husband in February, 2010; an infant brother, Milton Arthur; her brother, J.D. Daughhetee in June 2015, and sister, Lornella Rieger in November, 2017. Beverly is survived by her daughter, Yolanda and husband, Jason of Cherokee; many nieces and nephews; other relatives and friends. Memorial contributions may be made through the funeral home to the Hospice Circle of Love in Enid.