Gene Wilson And Associates Corporate President Becky Halcomb Passed Away

POND CREEK, OK–AUGUST 21, 2024–Becky Halcomb went on to the glory Jesus promised all believers on the morning of August 6, 2024, in her home at four corners west of Pond Creek, Oklahoma.

Born Jennifer Rebecca Phelps, on January 19, 1971, in Enid, OK, she lived her entire life calling Pond Creek home. She was the daughter of Lois May Geil Phelps and Harvey Phelps. She was married to Sammy Joe Halcomb on February 22, 1997, the love of her life.

Becky graduated from the Pond Creek/Hunter schools as the Valedictorian of her senior class in 1989. She graduated as the top student in the College of Agriculture at Oklahoma State University in 1993.

She was a horsewoman from the beginning, bucked off before she was even born. She learned her numbers at 2 or 3 years old off the starting gate on the old Colorado Fair Racing Circuit. She is well-known in the racing community and will be missed by all.

She and her trainer/mother showed Hunter Jumper horses all over the country, including thirteen appearances at the American Quarter Horse Association World Show in Oklahoma City and the Sun Circuit in Scottsdale, AZ

Upon graduation from OSU, she went to work for Gene Wilson & Associates, Inc. of Pond Creek, Oklahoma, and rose to corporate president.

She traveled all over the central United States doing photo-finish, video and winners circle photography at horserace tracks such as Blue Ribbon Downs, Fair Meadows at Tulsa, Eureka Downs, Manor Downs, The Woodlands, Wyoming Downs, Sweetwater Downs, Energy Downs, Casper, Les Bois in Idaho, Sonoita in Arizona, Great Falls, Montana and the Ocala Breeders Sales in Florida.

Her work at the racetracks was cut short by colon cancer shortly after Thanksgiving in 2018. Even then, Becky, in late 2019, designed a video production suite in high-definition digital TV for Wyoming Downs and Sweetwater Downs. She worked as the video director in the summer of 2021 for thirty-six race days in Wyoming while taking chemo in Salt Lake City.

Thereafter, she continued to print winners' circle pictures here in Pond Creek, to the very end, with the help of her three amigos, Jamie Elson, Liz North, and Teresa Aebi. Some have described their printing days as a party of devoted friends. She made numerous short taxing trips to the racetracks while battling cancer to train new employees and visit old friends.

She was an active member of the Pond Creek Methodist Church her entire life. She was particularly active in the community food bank and its distribution. She was an EMT with the Pond Creek EMS until the cancer came. She is survived by brother Harvey George (Bud) Phelps of Irving, Texas, and countless colleagues in the racing industry.