Betty T. Choat

Betty T. Choat, 66, of Westlake died at on January 25, 2011 at 5:20 AM in a lake area hospital.

Mrs. Choat was born in Monroe, Louisiana on October 26, 1944 to Charles and Doris Turner. Betty grew up in Vicksburg, Mississippi and graduated from J.V. Cooper High School, Hinds Jr. College and Delta State University. She was a resident of the Gulf Coast for over 30 years. Betty retired as a secretary from Stennis Space Center in 2004. She lived in Vicksburg, Mississippi after Hurricane Katrina.

Betty is preceded in death by her husband Curtis Joe Choat, Sr. and her parents Doris and Charles H. Turner, and one brother Charles E. Turner.

She is survived by one daughter Debra Claflin and her husband Rusty, two grandsons Adam and Garrett Claflin all of Lake Charles, two sisters Catherine Blanton and husband William of Stone Mountain, GA, and Julia Turner of Pensacola, FL, uncle Jack Rutledge and wife Earline of Monroe, LA, many nieces and nephews.

Graveside services will be held on Friday, January 28, 2011 at 2:00 PM at the Bayou La Croix Cemetery in Bay St. Louis, Mississippi. Rev. James Reardon will officiate. Visitation will begin on Thursday at 5:30 PM until 9:00 PM in the Johnson Funeral Home.