Edna Lois Lacy

Mrs. Edna Lois Lacy Mrs. Edna Lois Lacy, 86, died peacefully in her sleep Thursday, June 23, 2011 at her home. Services for Mrs. Lacy will be held at 2:00 P.M. Monday, June 27th, at the Stumpff Funeral Home Chapel in Barnsdall with Garry McDevitt, pastor of the First Baptist Church at Prue officiating. Casket escorts for Mrs. Lacy will be Eric Diehl, Kyle Streets, Nick Streets, Genson Streets, Ryan Moore and Trenton Haberly. Interment will be in the Ethel Reece Cemetery at Barnsdall directed by the Stumpff-Barnsdall Funeral Home. Visitation for Mrs. Lacy will be at the Stumpff Funeral Home in Bartlesville until 6 P.M. on Saturday, June 25th, at which time she will be transferred to the Stumpff Funeral Home in Barnsdall for visitation Sunday, June 26th from 1:00-8:00 P.M. and Monday, June 27th from 9:00 A.M. till 1:00 P.M., prior to the funeral service. Edna Lois Sample was born on the family farm in Van Buren, Arkansas on December 31, 1924 to Virgil and Grace Sample. The time she loved the best was when she was on the farm with her adored grandfather, Robert Alfred. She was his little “Tootsie”, a nickname that stayed with her all her life. Edna grew up on a farm in Pershing, Oklahoma where she attended school for her first 8 years. She went to high school in Nelagoney, Oklahoma, graduating with the class of 1942. She loved playing basketball and played for the school teams for 10 years. When she was 16, she was saved and was baptized in the First Baptist Church in Pershing. On November 10, 1942, she married her first and only boyfriend, Thomas Vernon Lacy, Jr. at that same church. She worked for the Douglas Bomber Plant in Tulsa as an assistant to a Riveter building airplanes for WWII. She later went to Portland, Oregon and worked at the bottom of ships, way underneath the water in the shipyard, which was the scariest job she ever had. This was while her husband was doing his Airforce training and earning his wings as a Pilot. Their first real home together was in Merced, California, where he was first stationed. When he was called to duty, Edna returned home to Pershing, Oklahoma with their baby daughter, Jeannie. After Vernon’s service was completed, he and Edna moved to Barnsdall had a second daughter, Donna and two sons, Bobby and David before their family was complete. Just when their family was nearly raised, they took on the task of raising their granddaughter, Cheryl. They enjoyed spending time at the lake, skiing and camping, vacations with their best friends, George and Maudie Sills, and countless weekends spent cooking and playing pitch. Edna worked for years at Diehl’s Foodliner, which later was Wells Food Market, and, not one to sit still, after “retirement”, she worked at the Barnsdall Elementary School, Barnsdall Historical Museum, and Stumpff Funeral Home until her health prevented her from doing so. Edna was a member of Barnsdall First Baptist Church. Edna thrived on doing for others, and was happiest when she was in the kitchen, whipping up a big pot of chicken and noodles or fried chicken for Sunday dinners. She baked a bazillion batches of cookies in her lifetime and I’m not sure anyone within fifty miles hadn’t had at least one of them! She cooked for her kids, for her grandkids, for their friends, for their sports teams, for her church family, and anyone else she felt was in need of a good, home cooked meal. Her life was her family. She moved to a retirement village in Bartlesville to be nearer family members in 2007, where she resided until her death. She thoroughly enjoyed the new friends she made there, playing bingo, participating in exercise classes and volunteering at the Nutrition site. Edna was preceded in death by her parents and her husband, Vernon, as well as her daughters Donna Balentine and Jean Diehl. She was also preceded in death by one brother, Billy Graham and two grandsons, Donnie Balentine and Robby Lacy. Edna is survived by her sons, Bobby Lacy of Niota, Tennessee, David Lacy of Tulsa, Oklahoma, a daughter-in-law, Debbie Lacy of Bartlesville, sisters, Dorothy Ashton, of Brookings, Oregon, and Mary Dell McGill of Malvern, Arkansas. She is also survived by her grandchildren, Cheryl Streets and her husband, Don of Bartlesville, Connie Moore and her husband, Greg, of Cleveland, OK, Kavra Walker and her husband, Brad, of Barnsdall, Eric Diehl, of Muskogee, Karissa Haberly and her husband, Matt, of Copan, Jay Lacy of Bartlesville, great-grandchildren, Kyle Streets, Nick Streets, and Genson Streets, Ryan Moore, Kori Moore, Tehya Walker, Kyndra Walker and Trenton Haberly, and a niece, Lynne Ashton, of Brookings, Oregon. Memorials can be made to the American Cancer Society, ATTN: Kathy Leeper, P.O. Box 1094, Bartlesville, Oklahoma, 74005 or to a charity of your choice. PDF Printable Version

Edna Lois Lacy

December 31, 1924 - June 23, 2011