Obit of Billue, Sylva B - Grady County, Oklahoma

Submitted by:  Shelly Lynch  <leeshlynch@gmail.com>   03 Feb 2008
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BILLUE - Sylva B., 66, died Thursday, September 20, at Baptist 
Hospital. She was born in Chickasha, OK, to Syverma Rogstad and 
Gaines Billue. She received a BA and MBA from the University of 
Oklahoma, where she was a member of Delta Delta Delta sorority. She 
is survived by: 2 sisters, Gayna Veltman and Cathi Billue; a brother, 
George Billue; 5 nieces, Cindy Wood, Laura Solliday, Krista Valluzzo, 
Syvenna Siebert, and Lily Siebert; 3 nephews, Lee Veltman, Neal 
Siebert, and Kitz Siebert; 3 great-nephews, Harrison, Murphy, and 
Pierson Valluzzo; and 2 great-nieces, MacKenzie and Margana Wood; and 
a host of people who knew her as a loyal and generous friend and who 
loved her like a sister. Ms. Billue was an artist in wood, whose work 
is exhibited in galleries here and in Santa Fe; she made furniture 
and turned bowls that are prized by those who own them. She was also 
a philanthropist, chiefly concerned with the welfare of women and 
girls. She was a generous contributor to the Women's Resource Center 
of Greensboro, the Women's Fund of Winston-Salem, Lillian's List, and 
the Women and Gender Studies Program at Wake Forest University. In 
2001, she endowed the yearly Phyllis Trible Lecture Series at the 
Wake Forest School of Divinity to honor University Professor Phyllis 
Trible and to communicate her interest in feminist theology. Earlier, 
in 1987, she established the Syvenna Foundation in honor of her 
mother in order to create a writer's colony for women writers; 
several whom have since published books with major publishers. She 
was a past member of the Wake Forest Board of Visitors and active in 
civic and professional organizations. A Memorial service will be held 
at 2 p.m., Tuesday, September 25, in Brendle Hall, on the Wake Forest 
University campus. In place of flowers contributions may be made to 
the Women and Gender Studies Program or to the Phyllis Trible Lecture 
Series at Wake Forest University, Winston-Salem, NC 27109. Cremation 
Services, Inc. assisting the family, (336) 765-2703.

Published in the Tulsa World on 9/25/2007.
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