Osage County, Oklahoma, Obituary:  Imogene Shaffner Stillwell

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The Hominy News - Progress
Vol. 39, No. 5
Wednesday, January 29, 2003
Page 5

Imogene Shaffner Stillwell

Imogene Shaffner Stillwell was born on June 9, 1927 in Hominy to Louise West 
Shaffner and Leonard A. Shaffner of Wynona.

Jean attended school first at the St. Louis Indian School in Pawhuska and 
Wynona Elementary School.  She attended Hominy High School and graduated from 
St. Scholastica High School in Fort Smith, Arkansas in 1944.  She attended 
Oklahoma A&M College and was the only woman enrolled in the College of 
Engineering.

Stillwater is where she met her husband, Vernon F. Stillwell.  They were 
married at the Immaculate Conception Catholic Church in Pawhuska on August 2, 
1947.  Jean was a devoted volunteer for many years at St. John's Medical Center, 
in Tulsa, and later at Saint Francis Hospital, also in Tulsa.  She worked at 
Christ the King Catholic Church as their secretary for many years until her 
retirement.  Jean was a avid golfer and had 4 hole-in-one's to her credit.

She is survived by her husband Vernon of Broken Arrow, daughter, Mary Plank, 
son-in-law Bobby, granddaughter Katie Daley and her husband Shaun of Jenks and 
granddaughter Emily Plank of Overland Park, KS.  Jean was a loving wife and 
devoted mother and grandmother.  She will be greatly missed.