Osage County, Oklahoma, Obituary:  MAXINE ERWIN-KASTL

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MAXINE ERWIN-KASTL

OCNS-March 3, 2000 - Funeral services were held Thursday, March 2, in the 
Osage Indian Baptist Church in Pawhuska with Reverend Raymond Redcorn 
officiating for longtime Pawhuskan, Maxine Erwin-Kastl.

Maxine was born September 19, 1920 in Fairfax, Oklahoma to Shelby and 
Millie (Sawyers) Stewart and later moved with her family to Pawhuska, 
Oklahoma where she attended Pawhuska schools.

January 5, 1942 she married S.M. "Bill" Erwin in Fayetteville, Arkansas 
and assisted him in many business ventures throughout his lifetime.

To this union four children were born: Billie Maxine Stiles of Okesa, 
Oklahoma, Sanford Phillip Erwin of rural Pawhuska, Terry Stewart Erwin of 
Langley, Oklahoma and Randolph Mansfield Erwin.

Mr. and Mrs. Erwin owned and operated the Pawhuska Golf and Country Club 
from 1943 through 1956, Erwin Flight School and Charter Service from 
1956-1964, Erwin heavy Equipment Sales and Services from 1942-1978 when 
construction of a new highway at Main and Lynn, Pawhuska, took their 
business location.

In 1975 Bill and Maxine purchased the Pawhuska Ready-Mix company which 
they operated until his death in 1982. During their many years together, 
they operated Erwin Bonding Company, Erwin Real Estate, licensed in 
Oklahoma and Kansas and ranches in Oklahoma and Kansas where they 
developed their own bloodline of registered Aberdeen Angus Cattle. Bill 
and Maxine remained residents of rural Pawhuska all of their lives.

February 22, 1988 Maxine married James N. Kastl who survives at the home 
in Pawhuska. They enjoyed several years together before her health 
condition forced her to become homebound. James remained at her side, 
caring for her at the family home and honoring her final wishes.

Maxine loved to sing, dance and entertain friends and family and was 
active in church, civic, political and social organizations.

She was preceded in death by her parents and grandparents, Charles and 
Nancy (Canada) Stewart and Benjamin Terry Sawyers and Maxine (Adkins) 
Sawyers (listed as Fairfax Pioneers in the book "Field of Cane" pictured 
with children at Salt Creek Falls in front of their tent at Fairfax, 
Oklahoma {1903}), a sister Wonna Stone and an infant grandson.

Maxine was an American Indian and her fighting spirit lives on in her 
descendants.

Maxine is also survived by three step-children: Hildred Mae Bryant of 
Disney, Oklahoma, Robert Sewell Erwin of Cody, Wyoming and Elizabeth 
Josephine Slinkard of Sapulpa, Oklahoma, her loyal and beloved daughter-in-
law, Carolyn Erwin; her sisters, Chloe Morgan of Claremore, Oklahoma; Jean 
McGhee of Wann, Oklahoma and a brother, Damon Stewart of Jenks, Oklahoma; 
her grandchildren, Greg and Day Spencer and their children, Kathryn and 
Steven of Bartlesville, Oklahoma; Nita Lisenba of Beeville, Texas, Tonya 
Owens and children, Meggin, Erin, Cathlin and Samuel of Cleveland, 
oklahoma; Robert Christopher and daughters, Madison and Olivia of Tulsa, 
Oklahoma; Kristi Lynn and Casey Ride and children, Whitney and Hunter; 
Bill and Kristi Erwin and son Ty Garrett, all of Owasso, Oklahoma; Nikole 
Erwin of Ponca City, Oklahoma; Robert Guy Erwin of New Haven, Connecticut 
and Amity and Glenn Parks and son Briar of Missoule, Mountana; Jerry 
Slinkard, Joe Slinkard and son, Justin of Fort Worth, Texas, Raeann Young 
and Coleman of Sapulpa, Oklahoma; Kerry Yancy and daughter, Natasha of 
Pawhuska, Oklahoma; and step-sons Reverend James H. Kastl, Jr. and wife 
Dana and children of Bartlesville, Oklahoma; and Jerry Brandenburg and 
children of South Carolina.

Maxine was a member of the Osage Indian Baptist Church in Pawhuska.

Interment was in the family plot in the Pawhuska Cemetery. Pallbearers 
were her nephews, Phillip Morgan, Paul Morgan, Perry Morgan, Parker Morgan 
and Clarence Stone, Jr.

Services were under the direction of Johnson Funeral Directors of Pawhuska.