Jean Ann (Brower) Ragains
Aug 30, 1933 - Dec 19, 2017
Posted by: Ann Weber

STUMPFF FUNERAL HOME
BARTLESVILLE, WASHINGTON CO, OK
(permission granted)

Jean Ann Ragains, 84, a longtime Bartlesville resident, died Tuesday evening, December 19, 2017.

Jean was born August 30, 1933 in Springfield, MO, the daughter of James Roy and Erma Elizabeth (Copeland) Brower.
She grew up living in Missouri, California, and Kansas, returning to Willard, Missouri where she graduated from high school in 1951.
On December 12, 1953 she married Wilbur Gene Ragains. They lived in Springfield and Rolla, Missouri while Wilbur was going to school for his engineering degree. They then relocated to North Carolina, where Wilbur worked for Bell Labs and got his Masters’ degree from North Carolina State.
The couple moved to the Bartlesville area in 1964 and have lived here ever since. Jean was a homemaker and a member of the Bartlesville First Baptist Church.

She was preceded in death by her husband, Wilbur Gene Ragains, her parents, and two brothers, Lee Brower and James Brower.

She is survived by her two daughters and their husbands Cathy and Jim Pickel and Karen and Wade DuRoy of Bartlesville; one son, Jim Ragains of Fort Worth, TX; grandchildren Steven Pickel & wife Jamie, Leslie Jett & husband Levi, Michael Pickel, Ashley Cole & husband Joshua, and Jeremy DuRoy; five great-grandchildren; two sisters and their husbands Norma and Jay Meredith of Powell, TN and Joyce and Carl Maggard of Springfield, MO; and sister-in-law Janet Brower of Ballwin, MO.

Funeral services will be held at 2:00 pm on Tuesday, December 26, 2017 at the Stumpff Funeral Home Chapel followed by burial at Memorial Park Cemetery in Bartlesville.