Betty Lee (Duggan) Nipper Stephens passed away unexpectedly on Mar. 4, 2026. She was born Jan.3, 1938, in Wilburton, OK, to Raymond and Maggie Duggan.
Betty graduated from Shawnee High School in 1956; then graduated from Neff Business School and went to work at the Sylvania Plant. On October 6, 1957, she married Carl Nipper.
Betty was a full-time mom until everyone was in school, and she began work as a secretary at the East Main Church of Christ where she had been a long-term member. She then began working at Tinker Air Force Base in the Inspector General’s office, Engineering and the E3 AWACS division. She retired in January 2000.
After Carl passed away, she married Dave Emery, enjoying 12 years of traveling and family together. In 2019, she married her final love Lynn Stephens and enjoyed five years of marriage traveling and taking care of each other.
Betty is survived by: Lynn Stephens, Carla Dame and husband Mark, Brian Nipper and wife Dena, Greg Nipper and Michele Mehring and husband Darrell; grandchildren, Ashley Scott and husband Mark and their daughters Haleigh, Marissa and MacKenna, Jessica Bryant and husband Cole and children Wyatt, Willow and Tatum, Chris Nipper and wife Kelsey and son Raylan, and Tanner Nipper. Lynn’s children: Bob and Janet Stephens, Chris and Shelley Stephens and Kelly and Stephen Trifiletti and their families; her sister Wilma Hixson; brother and sister-in-law, Jim and Jo Nipper and many nieces, nephews and family and friends.
Services were held Mar. 9, 2026, at Central Church of Christ, Shawnee, OK. Burial followed at Resthaven Memorial Gardens, under the direction of Cooper Funeral Home.
