Services for Christine Marie Gurley Lewis, 94, of Edmond, formerly of the Ada area are Noon Monday at the Criswell Chapel, Bishop Dan Silfies, Edmond will officiate. Burial will be at Rosedale Cemetery.
Mrs. Lewis passed peacefully in her sleep Thursday, February 8, 2018 at her home. She was born January 4, 1924, a very cold night at the old Oliver Homestead in the Pecan Grove Community, south of Ada to Joseph Samuel and Mary Alice Oliver Gurley. Her father had to keep chopping wood for the home fire. She attended Wilson grade school, Latta 9th grade, Vanoss 10-11th grade and graduated from Fitzhugh High School in 1944.
She married Elbert E. Lewis December 1941 in Ada. Christine worked in the Navy Shipyard in Richmond, CA during WWII in the Payroll Department processing IBM time cards while her husband served in Central Europe with the Army. She lived and raised her children in the San Francisco Bay area. While her children were in school, she served in the Parent-Teacher Association in the Richmond and Concord, CA areas. Her husband preceded her in death February 23, 1989 at Antioch, CA.
Christine helped raise her seven grandchildren with love and compassion. She was a selfless woman who always put the needs of others first. She loved her family and they were the most important thing to her. She was an accomplished seamstress and made most of her own clothes and her children’s. She was the 5th of 11 children and learned the art of canning and cooking from her beloved mother Molly. She loved her garden and never let anything go to waste. She was famous for her peanut brittle, cobblers and other goodies.
She moved to Oklahoma in 1997 to be near her daughter and three youngest grandchildren. Christine was a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints.
Survivors include a son, Doug Lewis, Oakley, CA; a daughter, Sherrie Furber (Dan), Edmond; seven grandchildren, Doug Lewis, Seattle, WA, Matt Lewis (Michelle), Concord, CA, Scott Lewis (Barbara), Rocklin, CA, Brad Lewis (Laurence) Incline Village, NV, Devon Furber, Edmond, Kellon Furber (Megan), New York, NY, and Lakan Cook (Kory), Edmond; six great-grandchildren, Kyle, Cory and Marcus Lewis; Rowan and Sloane Cook; and McKenna Lewis; her brothers, Sam Gurley, Wendel (Treva) Gurley and Floyd Gurley (Pat) Gurley, all of Ada, and Loyd (Mary) Gurley, Sulphur.
She was preceded in death by her parents; her husband; a son, Randy Lewis, February 5th, 1999 in Concord, CA; and her siblings, Sylvia Breeden, Elbert, Clifford and Kenneth Gurley, Allene Cobb, Mary Ellen Williams and two infants.
Criswell Funeral Home, Ada
