Daisy Beatrice Pierce

Daisy was born Daisy Beatrice Margwarth in the house where she grew up on July 7, 1928. Daisy was given the same first name as her mother. Therefore, she was known to everyone as "Bea" growing up. Bea attended grade school at Oglesby Elementary School located just one block from her home. Then she continued to Ramona High School where she was very active in Basketball and 4-H. She became extremely good as a seamstress and actually won a trip to Chicago her senior year for her canned goods. Bea graduated in 1947 and shortly after, she and her childhood best friend Wanda Sumpter moved to Bartlesville together and began working. Both girls became telephone operators for Southwestern Bell Telephone Company where they each worked for many years. Not long after moving to Bartlesville, Bea became reacquainted with a familiar schoolmate Robert (Bob) Pierce. After a very short courtship, they were married on November 28, 1947, and they made their home in Dewey. Bea (now "Daisy Bea" as Bob called her) continued working until her son Dennis was born. A few years later, Daisy Bea and her family moved back to Oglesby where her daughter Janice was born. Daisy Bea became a fulltime stay at home mom by this time. That didn't stop her from raising chickens, milking cows, raising a garden, tending dozens of flower beds, doing the yard work, making all sorts of canned goods all year round and working on the election board whenever possible. She also found time to quilt, knit, crochet, embroider and teach Sunday School at Oglesby Assembly of God. When there were no more cows and chickens and no more kids at home, Daisy Bea enjoyed traveling around the countryside sightseeing with Bob. Dennis would join them on many of these trips. Sometimes they would visit familiar places, sometimes they would visit new ones but always stopping to see and take pictures of any trains passing through. In 2008, Bob and Daisy Bea moved to Bartlesville to be even closer to their children. They stayed active going to all the senior lunches in the surrounding towns, going to Leisure Lane to play bingo and continuing to take their trips around the countryside. At some point Daisy Bea dropped the "Bea" and became just "Daisy". Regardless if you knew her as Bea, Daisy or Daisy Bea. She was always a devoted wife, loving mother and loyal friend. She loved her family very much and she had a special place in her heart for her son-in-law Isi. She was preceded in death by her father, Ernest William Margwarth; mother, Daisy Mabel; sisters, Lillie Darnell and Freida Trask; son, Dennis Pierce; and husband, Robert “Bob” Pierce. She is survived by her daughter, Janice Rey; son-in-law, Isidro Rey; and brothers, Ernest William Margwarth and Charley Jack Margwarth.

Daisy Beatrice Pierce

July 7, 1928 - December 17, 2022