Loraine I Mahaffey

Mrs. Loraine I. Mahaffey Mrs. Loraine I. Mahaffey, 90, of Bartlesville, died at 9:30 P.M. on Wednesday, August 10, 2011 at the Forrest Manor Nursing Home in Dewey. Funeral services for Mrs. Mahaffey will be held at 2 P.M. Monday, August 15, 2011 at the East Bartlesville Christian Church with Mr. David Mabon officiating. Interment will be in the Memorial Park Cemetery under the direction of the Stumpff Funeral Home & Crematory. Casket escorts will include Travis Jones, Scott Mahaffey, Scott Cunningham, David Horton, Jonathon Francis and Clinton Reavis. Honorary casket escorts will include Keith Mahaffey, Lyndal Mahaffey, Earl Shyrock, David Melott, Roger Reavis, Don Owens, Steve Blevins, Sam Gaskill, R.H. Geurin, Bob Francis,Dee Williams and Trevor Jones. The Mahaffey family will receive guests for visitation at the Stumpff Funeral Home on Sunday from 4 P.M. until 5 P.M. Memorial funds have been established and those who wish may send their contributions in her name to the Abiding Memorial at the East Bartlesville Christian Church, 3221 East Tuxedo Blvd., Bartlesville, Oklahoma, 74006, or to Comforting Hands Hospice, 2450 S.E. Washington Blvd., Bartlesville, Oklahoma, 74006 or to the American Heart Association, P.O. Box 841125, Dallas, Texas 75284-1125. Mrs. Mahaffey was born at St. Paul, Nebraska on January 3, 1921 to John B. and Mary I. (Mulhall) Graham. She grew up in the Medford, Pond Creek and Jefferson areas of Oklahoma and attended Pond Creek schools. She later attended school at Jefferson, Oklahoma where she graduated from high school. She went through all of the chairs and was Worthy Advisor of the Rainbow organization at Pond Creek and also belonged to the Rebekah Lodge at Jefferson, Oklahoma. She was married to Alfred R. Mahaffey on November 23, 1939 at Pond Creek, Oklahoma. They made their home in the Pond Creek area until moving to Ramona in 1955 where they lived for several years until moving to Bartlesville. Mrs. Mahaffey was a pastry cook for the Reja Cafeteria from 1955 to 1959 at which time she became the private cook for the President’s Dining Room at the Cities Service Oil Company. She later became a records clerk in the Cities Service corporate records office and commuted for 13 years to Tulsa until her retirement on July 1, 1982. Mrs. Mahaffey was a member of the East Bartlesville Christian Church where she was a Sunday School teacher of the lower classes at the beginning of the church, was the youth choir director, was a member of the church choir, the Keenagers choir and participated in many musicals and cantatas. Mrs. Mahaffey is survived by three daughters, Bonnie Brown and husband Bob of Bonita Springs, Florida, Marilyn Parsons and husband Paul of Brier, Washington and Sheryl Jones Sroufe and husband Jack of Bartlesville, one son, John Mahaffey and wife Carol of Edmond, Okla., one sister, Louise Gettel of Oregon, eight grandchildren, two step grandchildren, eleven great grandchildren, four step great grandchildren, three step great great grandchildren and a host of nieces and nephews. She was preceded in death by her mother and her father, one sister, three brothers and her husband, Alfred R. Mahaffey on December 28, 1998. PDF Printable Version

Loraine I Mahaffey

January 3, 1921 - August 10, 2011