Jenni

Jennifer Rene “Jenni” Sanders Jennifer Rene “Jenni” Sanders, 24, a longtime area resident, died Sunday, January 8, 2012 at the M.D. Anderson Medical Center in Houston, Texas. Funeral services for Jenni will be held at 2 P.M. on Friday, January 13, 2012 at the Copan School Gymnasium with Jimmy Harrington, pastor of the Ridin’ For The Brand Cowboy Church in Wann officiating. Interment will be in the Wann Cemetery under the direction of the Stumpff funeral Home & Crematory. Jenni’s family will receive guests for visitation at the Stumpff Funeral Home on Thursday evening, January 12, 2012 from 5 P.M. until 7 P.M. Jenni was born in Bartlesville, Oklahoma on April 26, 1987 the daughter of Joyce Rene (Phillips) and Michael Allen Sanders. She grew up and received her education in the Copan area and Copan Schools where she graduated in 2005. While attending schools in Copan she was involved in sports such as track and volleyball and her favorite sport, basketball. She had also been a cheerleader, was Homecoming Queen, was treasurer of FFA and showed pigs at the livestock show. She was also involved in the youth groups of both the Copan Baptist Church, the Copan United Methodist Church and was active in the Fellowship of Christian Athletes. She attended Tri County Technical School in cosmetology and became a licensed cosmetologist and had worked at Gail’s Hairstyling during and after her college. She attended Southwestern State University in Weatherford, Oklahoma and the Caddo/Kiowa Tech Center at Fort Cobb, Oklahoma and received her Associates Degree in Occupational Therapy and became a Certified Occupational Therapist. Jenni graduated with top honors in her class and received additional recognition while attending Nationals in Nashville, Tennessee. She was employed with the Bartlesville Public Schools in 2009 as an occupational therapist and had also worked at the OSU Medical Center in Tulsa. She met her fiancée, Wendell Mitchell in April 2008 and along with him she loved to hunt, camp, fish, their dogs, Maisie and Bentley and take float trips. They were planning their future together. Most recently she had been attending the Ridin’ ForThe Brand Church in Wann. Jenni is survived by her mother, Joyce Rene Norman of Dewey, her father, Michael Allen Sanders and wife, Kathy of Elk City, Kansas, her fiancée, Wendell Mitchell of Ramona, two brothers, Brandon Sanders and his wife, Alicia and their son, Brock of Coffeyville, Kansas, and Spencer Sanders of Elk City, Kansas, one sister, Laura Sanders and her children, Caden and Kyra Barker of Caney, Kansas, two step brothers, and a step sister, Benny Culbertson of Neodesha, Kansas, Eric Culbertson of Independence, Kansas and Kayla Culbertson of Cherryvale, Kansas, her maternal grandparents, Bill and Sue Phillips of Wann, her paternal grandparents, Ronnie and Dorma Sanders of Elk City, Kansas, her paternal great grandmother, Pauline Pannell of Bartlesville, and numerous other aunts, uncles and cousins. Jenni was loved by all. PDF Printable Version

Jenni

April 26, 1987 - January 8, 2012