Obit of Ringham, I. LaTrice - Washington County, Oklahoma

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Surnames: QUATTLEBAUM, RINGHAM, COWELL, GILLILAND, NICHOLS, RODGERS, NIX, PERRY

I. LaTrice Ringham

from 4-15-2003 Examiner Enterprise

Mrs. I. LaTrice (Quattlebaum) Ringham, 91, widow of the late C. Russell 
Ringham, died at 7:35 p.m. on Saturday in Richardson, Texas.

Funeral services for Mrs. Ringham will be held at 10:00 a.m. on Thursday 
in the Bartlesville First United Methodist Church. Rev. Charles Cowell 
will be the officiant. Committal prayers and interment will be directed in 
the Memorial Park Cemetery by The Arnold Moore Funeral Service.

Mrs. Ringham will lie in state in the Drawing Rooms of The Arnold Moore 
Funeral Residence where friends may call for their visitation until she is 
removed to the church for final rites.

LaTrice (Quattlebaum) Ringham was born on March 14, 1912 in Stanford, 
Texas. She was the daughter of the late Rev. J. O. and Alice Ava 
(Gilliland) Quattlebaum. LaTrice lived many places in Texas and California 
where her father ministered in the Methodist Church. She received a 
Bachelors Degree from the West Texas State Teachers College, after which 
she taught elementary school music in Pampa Camp, Texas. In 1936 she and 
C. Russell Ringham were married in Canyon, Texas and they made their home 
in Phillips, Texas and Pampa, Texas. The Ringhams moved to Bartlesville in 
1940 where Mr. Ringham continued his employment with the Phillips 
Petroleum Co. and was retired in 1974 as Executive Director of the Gas and 
Gasoline Departments. Mr. Ringham preceded her in death in Bartlesville on 
November 14, 1996. Mrs. Ringham continued her residence in Bartlesville 
until moving to Richardson, Texas in February 2002 to live near her son 
and daughter-in-law.

Music was LaTrice's passion, and she spent many years of dedicated service 
in organizations such as the Bartlesville Musical Research Society, was 
past president of the Oklahoma Federation of Music Clubs and was on the 
executive board and had served as chairperson of the National Federation 
of Music Clubs. LaTrice also had been a member of the Oklahoma Governor's 
Fine Arts Board, and was instrumental in establishing the Community 
Concerts program in Bartlesville. She was once selected as the Outstanding 
Woman of the Year in Bartlesville.

She is survived by a son, Lee O. and his wife Mary Jayne Ringham, 
Richardson, Texas; a daughter, Mrs. Tom L. (Beverly A.) Nichols, Tulsa, 
Okla.; four grandchildren, Richard R. Ringham, Michael L. Ringham, Deborah 
A. Ringham and Laura L. Rodgers; three great grandchildren, Kenneth 
Ringham, William Rodgers and Rachel Rodgers; two sisters, Mrs. Mary Alice 
Nix and Mrs. Patti Perry, both of Dallas, Texas.
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