Obit of Mary Evelyn Twyman Graybill (g614) - Roger Mills County, Oklahoma

Submitted by:  Wanda Purcell   <wpurc25758@aol.com>  3 Aug 2002
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Funeral Services for Mary Evelyn Twyman Graybill were held Monday, 
May 17, 2002, at 10 a.m. at the Leedey First Baptist Church with 
Brothers' Don Ross and Charlie Murphy officiating.  Burial was 
followed in the New Herman Cemetery, Leedey, Dewey County, Oklahoma 
under the direction of the Shaw Funeral Home of Leedey.

Mary Evelyn Graybill was born on December 19, 1917 in the Trail 
Community in Dewey County in a half dugout home near the South 
Canadian River, and died Thursday, Mary 13, 2002 at the Great 
Plains Regional Medical Center in Elk City at the age of 84.

She was reared in Dewey County on the family farm in the Trail community 
and graduated from Trail High School in 1936.  Upon graduaation from 
high school, she was employed by the Department of Social Rehabiliative 
Services for the State of Oklahoma, and attended Southwestern State 
Normal College at Weatherford.

On March 12, 1938, she was united in marriaage to James Nolan Graybill 
at Weatherford.  They resided for a short time on a farm northwest of 
Leedey and in 1944, purchased the family homestead four miles south 
of Leedey where she remained until 1986.  Shortly thereafter, she 
moved to town.  In 1995 she moved to the Leedey Nursing Center.

She was aved and baptizede at an early age in the Missionary Baptist 
Church.  Later she joined the First Baptist Church of Leedey.

She was preceded in death by her husband, James Nolan Graybill; a 
great grandchild, Tyler Graybill; her parents, Thomas and Lula Mudd 
Tyman; two brothers, Porter and Robert Twyman and one sister, Margaret 
White.

Survivors include one daughter, Darlene Leck and husband Donald of 
Wichita, Kansas; five sons, Duwayne Graybill and wife Helen of 
Weatherford, Jerry Graybill and wife Elaine of Alva, Virgil Graybill 
and wife Wallie of Bethany, Robert Graybill and wife Judy of Clinton, 
Calvin Graybill and wife Verna of Alv a; three sisters, Mildred Day 
of Leedey, Lula Mae Britton of Leedey and Lorene Twyman of Oklahoma 
City; sisters-in-law,  Maurine Graybill, Rita Graybill, Naomi "Toots" 
Graybill, Doris Graybill, Imogene Rounds and Christene Broadbent, 
eleven grandchildren and twelver great grandchildren.

Memorial contribution in her name may be made to the Leedey Ambulance 
Fund, the Leedey Nursing Center, or the Leedey First Baptist Church.

Cheyenne Star, Cheyenne, OK 20-Jun-2002