Erie F. Stonecipher

Marietta Monitor

April 9, 1999, pg 4

Submitted by: Martha N. Reddout

Services for Erie F. Stonecipher of Marietta will be Friday at 10:30 a.m. in the Eastside Baptist Church. Officiating will be Rev. Steve Gardner.

Born May 24, 1910, at Wellington, Texas, the daughter of Nevin Everest and Ollie May Laughlin Willard, Mrs. Stonecipher died April 6, 1999, in Mercy Memorial Health Center, Ardmore, at the age of 88.

Mrs. Stonecipher moved to Marietta from Hugo in 1995. She married Rev. B.C. Stonecipher on June 17, 1934, at Wellington, and he preceded her in death on October 15, 1990. A retired Licensed Vocational Nurse, Mrs. Stonecipher had been the Director of Nursing at the Muleshoe Nursing Home of Muleshoe, Texas, for several years. She was a member of the Eastside Baptist Church of Marietta.

Survivors include a son and daughter-in-law, Johnny and Judy Stonecipher of Denver, Colorado; a daughter and son-in-law, Mary and Bud Barber of the home in Marietta; a brother, Aubrey Willard of Santa Fe, New Mexico; two sisters, Tommie Judd and Marjorie Roy of Amarillo, Texas; four grand-children, Justin Stonecipher, James Stonecipher, Jack Barber and Rebecca Netzinger; and three great-grandchildren, Megan Stonecipher, Jackye Barber and Tacye Barber.

Mrs. Stonecipher was preceded in death by her husband; and two brothers, Vernon Willard in 1978 and Elmer Willard in 1994.

Interment will be in the Memorial Garden Cemetery at Wellington at 10:30 a.m. Saturday with Rev. Elvis Pitts officiating. Pallbearers will be Johnny Stonecipher, James Stonecipher, Justin Stonecipher, Bud Barber, Jack Barber and William Netzinger. Services are under the direction of Kennedy Fuenral Home.