Obit of Stokes, Maxine Charlotte White - Creek County, Oklahoma Submitted by: Gene Phillips 26 Dec 2010 Return to Creek County Archives: http://www.usgwarchives.net/ok/creek/creek.htm ===================================================================== USGENWEB NOTICE Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm ===================================================================== ::Davenport Cemetery--Davenport OK Cushing Daily Citizen February 19, 2007 05:40 pm Maxine Charlotte White Stokes NO PICTURE Maxine Charlotte White Stokes passed away in Stillwater at the age of 91, Feb. 16, 2007. Services are scheduled for Tuesday Feb. 20, 2007 at 2 p.m. at the First Church of the Nazarene, 1023 E. Will Rogers Drive in Stillwater with Reverend Henry Siems officiating. Interment will follow at the Davenport Cemetery. Services are entrusted to Strode Funeral Home of Stillwater Maxine was born to George Weber Long and Esther (Grigsby) Long Sept. 13, 1915 in Davenport, Okla. Maxine attended twelve years at Davenport Public Schools. On May 1, 1938 she married Wilbert White in Texarkana, Texas and to this union two sons, Richard White and Phil White were born. She earned a Bachelors and Masters degree from Oklahoma State University where she majored in elementary education. She taught her first three years in Davenport, the next twelve years in Cushing and the last twenty years at Westwood School in Stillwater. She loved every minute of her thirty five years in the classroom. She was a long time member of the Nazarene Church. She loved her Lord and served Him faithfully. Over the years she served as pianist, organist, choir member, junior supervisor, church board member and missionary president. After the loss of her first husband, Maxine married Fred Raymond Stokes on June 24, 1984 in Stillwater. She and Fred made their home in the Hillside area of Stillwater before moving to Golden Oaks Village. They were members of the Cowboy Country good Sam’s travel club in Stillwater and she loved wearing her orange Good Sam Jacket. She was a loving wife, mother, grandmother and great grandmother. Maxine belonged to the Stillwater Educators Association, Oklahoma Educators Association, National Educators Association, Delta Kappa Gamma, Kappa Kappa Lota, Who’s Who Among American Teachers, Westwood Teacher of the Year of the year in 1971 and Stillwater Teacher of the year in 1981 and 1982. Beloved grandparents, parents, first husband, mother and father in law Mr. and Mrs. J.B. White, two sisters Mildred Gunn and Kathryn Lively, one step son John Deering and one step grand daughter Amber Johnston preceded Maxine in death. Surviving family include sons Richard White and wife Nancy of Tucson, Ariz. and Dr. Phil White and wife Susan of Lamont, Colo., step daughters; Karen Dyck and husband of Baton Rouge, La., Linda Stokes of Las Vegas, Nev. And Sandi Johnson of Oklahoma City, step son Keith Stokes and wife Doris of Colorado Springs, Colo., three grand children; Jeffrey White and wife Sarah of El Paso, Texas, Marnie Varner of Rockford, Ill., and Ty Varner and wife Michelle of Elgin, Ill., and great grandchild Brandon Varner of Elgin, Ill., eight step grandchildren and two great step grandchildren, much loved sister in law, Marguerite Bracksieck and husband Frank of Stillwater, three nieces; Mary Singletary of Georgetown, Texas, Susan Chong and husband Dennis of Honolulu, HI., Nancy Henry and husband Påt of Tiger, Ga., one nephew Gary Brachsieck and wife Shirley of Katy, Texas and a host of other relatives and friends. Condolences may be emailed to the family via the website at WWW.STRODEFH.COM --------------------------------------------------------------------- Return to Creek County Archives: http://www.usgwarchives.net/ok/creek/creek.htm