Oklahoma Cemeteries Website
Click
here
to break out of frames
This information is available for free.
If you paid money for a
subscription to get to this site, demand a refund.
Our precious mother, Shirley Dean Tidwell, 76, went to be with our lord on Sunday September 29, 2013 at 9:55 PM, at the Forrest Manor Nursing Center in Dewey.
Funeral Services for Mrs. Tidwell will be held at 10:00 A.M. on Thursday at the Stumpff Funeral Home Chapel, with Pastor Jim Anderson of the Word Of Truth Fellowship Church in Bartlesville officiating. Interment will be in the Dewey Cemetery, under the direction of the Stumpff Funeral Home & Crematory.
The Family will receive friends, and have a Visitation on Wednesday evening October 2nd from 6:00 P.M. to 8:00 P.M. at the Stumpff Funeral Home.
Mrs. Tidwell was born on November 16, 1936 at Fairfax, Oklahoma to Joel Lee and Nina Lee (Stafford) Barnes. She was raised and received her education there graduating from Fairfax High School in 1955. She was married to Elbert Eugene "Gene" Tidwell on June 12, 1954, at Fairfax. They spent the early years of their marriage at Borger Texas, where Mr. Tidwell was employed by Phillips Petroleum Company. They came to the Dewey and Bartlesville area in 1961, making their home here since that time. Mrs. Tidwell had been employed first as a receptionist and medical assistant for the radiological services, and later at the Jane Phillips Medical Center as a receptionist for a number of years, until her ill health forced her retirement in June of 1998. Mrs. Tidwell had been in failing health for the past 15 years. Her Hobbies were antiquing, ceramics, and a glass collector of dishes, and loved her sports cars, and animals, particularly dogs and horses.
Mrs. Tidwell is survived by her two daughters; Tonya Evans and husband Kerry of Bartlesville, and Connie Wilson and husband Rod, of Bartlesville, and by a sister Mrs. Patty Turner of Crescent, OK, by Eight grandchildren; Tiffany Evans, Casey Evans (Nicki Coast), Vincent Joel Maldonado (Austin Williams), Mike and Katie Ivey, Heath and Candice Arnold, Tyler Wilson, Dustin & Jenny Gilmore, and Taylor Maldonado (Brent Wilson), by eight great- grandchildren; Mikaylynn Agnew, Malakai Agnew, Zane Agnew, Morgan Arnold, Harper Gilmore, Gavin Arnold, Echo Gilmore, and Mara Ivey.
She was preceded in death by her parents, Joel & Nina Lee Barnes, her lifetime love Elbert Eugene "Gene" Tidwell in 2004, and her brothers Emery Gene Barnes, and Dewayne "Duck" Barnes, and by a sister, Sharlene "Shod" Berry.
Friends who wish may sign the online guest book and leave condolences at www.stumpff.org
|Dewey Cemetery Page| |Washington County Cemetery Page| |Home|
This site may be freely linked, but not duplicated in any way without consent.
All rights reserved! Commercial use of material within this site is prohibited!
© 2000-2024 Oklahoma Cemeteries
The information on this site is provided free for the purpose of researching your genealogy. This material may be freely used by non-commercial entities, for your own research, as long as this message remains on all copied material. The information contained in this site may not be copied to any other site without written "snail-mail" permission. If you wish to have a copy of a donor's material, you must have their permission. All information found on these pages is under copyright of Oklahoma Cemeteries. This is to protect any and all information donated. The original submitter or source of the information will retain their copyright. Unless otherwise stated, any donated material is given to Oklahoma Cemeteries to make it available online. This material will always be available at no cost, it will always remain free to the researcher.
