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Patricia Ruth Bailey © Henninger-Hinson Funeral Home 12-2012 Submitted by: Jo Aguirre
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The memorial service for Patricia Ruth Bailey will be Sunday, December 23, 2012 at 2:00PM in the Henninger-Hinson Funeral Home Chapel. A private family burial will follow at a later date. Patricia was born August 2, 1926 in Tonkawa, Oklahoma to J.F. and Laura ( Philbrook ) Stevenson and died Wednesday, December 19, 2012 in Highland Park Manor. She attended Enid High School but graduated from Welsley Girls High School in Boston with the class of 1944. While in Boston she began her singing career with Big Bands. She was under contract with both NBC and CBS records.
She returned to Enid and on May 2, 1948 she married Clarence Lee Bailey in the First Methodist Church. The couple made their home in Enid where she worked as a waitress and bartender for almost 30 years. She sang at the Vance AFB NCO club and traveled with her husband around the country with the Flint Hill Boys. In 1955 the family moved to Los Angeles where the couple had a Country and Western television show that ran through 1956. They returned to Enid in 1957.
She was a long-time member of the First Presbyterian Church, where she learned to sing at age three. She loved singing for her grandchildren.
She is survived by her three children; son Tim Bailey of Enid and wife Jacque, Daughter Rebecca Lynn Buck and husband Ryan, of McCloud, OK., and daughter Linda L. Frye and husband Al, of Enid. One step-son, Jack Bailey. Grandchildren; Shel Bailey, T.J. Shrader, Makiah Bailey, Kristi McCutcheon, Jimmy, Kurtis, Linda and Leslie and Jessica Beasley, Tony Bailey, Angela Copley, and Amy Frye. Several great-grandchildren, one sister, Mary June Harvey, of Charlotte, MI, several nieces, nephews, and cousins.
She was preceded by her parents, her husband, her brother Jerry, two sisters, Helen Howe and Gwen Lee and one great-granddaughter, Morgan Thompson.
Memorials may be made through the funeral home to OMRF(Cancer or M.S. Division).
Condolences may be made to the family online at www.enidwecare.com ;
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