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Bethany is a city in Oklahoma County, Oklahoma, United States, and a part of the Oklahoma City metropolitan area. Bethany has a population of 20,831 at the 2020 census , a 9.3% increase from 2010. The community was founded in 1909 by followers of the Church of the Nazarene from Oklahoma City.
On the night of June 19, 1992, a robbery occurred at a convenience store in Oklahoma City, resulting in the death of the store owner, who was shot two robbers. [2]On that night, at around 10:15 p.m., 31-year-old Kenneth Meers, the owner of the convenience store, was working with two employees, Tony Hulsey and Hulsey's brother, Danny Waldrup.
Pages in category "People from Bethany, Oklahoma" The following 10 pages are in this category, out of 10 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. C.
Mike Kelley was born and raised in Bethany. [1] He graduated from the University of Oklahoma and started working as a firefighter in 1986. [2] [3] He was a member of the International Association of Fire Fighters Local 157 and responded to the Oklahoma City bombing in 1995.
Centennial Plaza. The main campus is located in Bethany, Oklahoma.Since 1990, SNU has also maintained a presence in Tulsa, providing adult and professional programs. [14] [15] Buildings with excavated basements on the Bethany campus have a history of being opened up to shelter area locals during tornado warnings.
Bethany Public Schools was organized as School District No. 88 on December 27, 1910. Among its first trustees were J.W. Vawter and U.D.T. Murray, father of Wm. H. Murray, former governor of Oklahoma. Bonds were voted in the amount of $2,000 to erect the first building, a concrete-block, one-room structure, in 1910–11.
Southwestern Christian University is a private Pentecostal university in Bethany, Oklahoma.It was founded in 1946 as Southwestern Bible College in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, and was the first Pentecostal educational institution in the state.
William Lewis Reece was born on July 1, 1959, in Oklahoma, one of 13 siblings.He spent his youth in the cities of Yukon and Anadarko. [2] Due to his parents' financial issues, he was forced to quit school after the ninth grade and take on a job as a farm laborer.