Wakita Cemetery, Grant County, Oklahoma

ENID, Okla. — Funeral service for Joanne Lawrence, 90, will be 11 a.m. Thursday, May 29, 2014, at Wakita Christian Church, with Pastor Jeff Enabnit and Randy Gariss officiating. Burial will be in Wakita Cemetery, with arrangements by Lanman Funeral Home Inc., Medford. Condolences may be shared with the family at www.lan manmemorials.com. Viewing will be Thursday before the service at the church.

Joanne Lawrence passed away Monday, May 26, 2014, at Wakita Community Health Center after a long battle with Parkinson’s.

Joanne was born in Wakita on July 23, 1923, to Perry and Ollie Harp.

She was a graduate of Wakita High School and Enid Business College.

After her schooling, she worked at Beechcraft in Wichita, Kan., until the end of World War II.

She married her grade school sweetheart, R.D. Lawrence, on June 26, 1945. They were married 68 years.

Joanne was a fine representative of an Oklahoma farm wife. She was always prepared to feed a dozen hay hands; work on algebra with the kids; serve in her church (Fairview Christian Church, Sand Creek, Okla.) as song leader, VBS director or teacher; or give years of volunteer service at the local nursing home.

She cared little for attention, yet gave much of it to her family. Because of her debilitating disease, she spent her final 41?2 years as a resident of Wakita Community Health Center.

Those preceding her in death include one daughter, Vicki Jo in 1953; her parents, Perry and Ollie Harp; and her sister, Marjorie Northcutt.

Survivors include her husband, R.D. Lawrence; three children, Leanna Turney and husband Johnny, Richard Lawrence and wife Peggy, and Julie Gariss and husband Randy; six grandchildren, Stefani Northcutt, Brady Lawrence, Clint Lawrence, Troy Gariss, Katie Marsh and Megan Gariss; and 10 great-grandchildren, Caden Lawrence, Hudson Lawrence, Boston Lawrence, Brittin Lawrence, Ian Gariss, Brooke Gariss, Heath Gariss, Kinley Marsh, Hunter Marsh and Will Marsh.

Memorials may be given to Wakita Community Health Center or church or charity of choice through the funeral home.

(Submitted by family)

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