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Rebecca Nutter Cravens


A memorial service for Rebecca Nutter Cravens, 67, of Chickasha will be held at 2:00 p.m. Sunday, April 30, 2023 at the First Christian Church with Michael Oberlender officiating.

Rebecca “Becky” Nutter Cravens was born September 9, 1955 in Victoria, Texas, the daughter of Alan Vern Nutter and Emma Louise “Emalu” (Curtis) Nutter. She passed from this life on Thursday, April 20, 2023 in Amarillo, Texas.

Becky and her family moved around a lot growing up because her father was a pilot in the U.S. Air Force. They settled in Waynoka, Oklahoma when he went to Vietnam then retired. After graduating from Waynoka High School in 1973, Becky attended NWOSU in Alva, where she was one of the first female recruits in the ROTC.

She married John Leeper and was divorced within a year. She then went to Okmulgee to OSU Tech for drafting and there she met Bob Huntley. She graduated with an Associate’s Degree, married Bob, and they lived and worked in Tulsa. In 1985, she had her son Ryan. She worked as a draftsman in the oil industry until the oil bust and then retrained as a court reporter, free lancing in Muskogee for two years, then working in the District Court in Anadarko for 13 years.

On July 8, 1994, she married Dana Cravens and they made their home in Chickasha. They became members of the First Christian Church. She worked for the District Court in Chickasha for 11 years, retiring around 2013.

Becky was preceded in death by both parents and her brother Lester Nutter.

Loved ones left to remember her are her husband, Dana of the home; son Ryan Huntley and his wife Heather of Elgin; step-daughters Stefanie Cravens and Sabrina Conlee and husband Steve, all of Oklahoma City; sister Emma Elizabeth “Emabeth” of Panhandle, Texas; brother Steve Nutter and wife Leslie of Waynoka; five grandchildren Kady, Koby, Ian, Whitney, and Ira; and other extended family and friends.

The service and cremation arrangements are under the direction of Ferguson Funeral Home.