Published: June 30, 2009 11:17 am      

Benny Lee Billy

Benny Lee Billy, 65, of McAlester, died Sunday, June 28, 2009, in McAlester

Graveside services will be at 10:30 a.m. Wednesday at Muse Cemetery. Funeral arrangements are under the direction of Brumley-Mills Funeral Home of McAlester.

Born Mar. 20, 1944, near Muse, he was the son of Ephrium and Vera Lou (Spears) Billy. He lived in Muse, Whitesboro and Talihina most of his life and had been in McAlester for the past five years.

He served in the United States Army during the Viet Nam war and had done work as a machinist.

Survivors include four children, Karen Gravitt and her husband, Don, of McAlester, Kimberly Green and her husband, Thurman, of Talihina, Brandon Behrens and his wife, Athena, Denison, Texas, and Branford Billy.