Obit of Ward, Marianna Otey - Payne County, Oklahoma Submitted by: Gene Phillips 8 Jan 2006 Return to Payne County Archives: http://www.usgwarchives.net/ok/payne/payne.html ========================================================================== USGENWEB NOTICE Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm ========================================================================== :Perkins Cemetery--Perkins OK Norman Transcript 10 Sep 2003 Marianna Otey Ward Marianna Otey Ward, 85, died Sunday, Sept. 7. Services will be at 10:30 a.m. Thursday, Sept. 11, at the Stillwater Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Her son-in-law, James H. Balkman, and his four sons will assist in the officating of the service. Burial will follow in Perkins Cemetery. Mrs. Ward was born July 9, 1918, in Stillwater to Monroe Job Otey and Clara Marshall Otey, and spent her entire life in Stillwater. She graduated from Stillwater High School, attended Oklahoma A&M and encouraged her family and friends to pursue higher education. During World War II, she worked at Ward Chevrolet and later assisted her husband, Eugene Glenn Ward, in the oil business and owned an antique store. Before his death, she and Glenn Ward celebrated 59 years of marriage. Mrs. Ward will be remembered by family as a humorous, sharing and loving wife, mother, grandmother and friend who genuinely was interested in her family, friends and community. She was a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and was especially proud of the missionary service and church leadership roles of her grandsons, Steven, Matthew, Brandon and Thad. Survivors include a son, Stanley M. Ward and wife, Gayle, of Norman; grandchildren Steven K. Balkman, Matthew W. Balkman, Brandon J. Balkman, Thad H. Balkman, Marshall M. Ward, Amy P. Seamans and Stacy M. Irwin; 19 great-grandchildren, and nummerous nieces and nephews. She was preceded in death by her older siblings, Ivoe Otey and Dorothy Gage, and a daughter, Sonya Kay Balkman. The family would like to extend special thanks to caregiver Lois Dennis, neighbors Shirley and Vern McKinzie, Mr. and Mrs. Russell Conway, Dr. Tim Smalley, her extended family, Doris Clarke, Gale and Pat Ward. Memorial donations can be made to the Judith Karman Hospice, Inc., P.O. Box 818, Stillwater, Okla. 74076. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Return to Payne County Archives: http://www.usgwarchives.net/ok/payne/payne.html