Funeral services for Margaret Marie Easterling will be conducted at 10
a.m. Tuesday from the First Baptist Church of Sayre with Robert Lakey
officiating. Interment will follow in the White Rose Cemetery, Reydon,
Roger Mills County, Oklahoma under the direction of the Martin Funeral
Home of Sayre, OK.
Margaret was born July 20, 1918 at Rankin, to William and Edith
Petersen and died early this morning Friday October 19, 2001 in San
Pablo, California at the age of 83. Margaret spent her early years in
Rankin and then Reydon, where she graduated from high school in 1936.
Her family moved to Riverside, California. She married Acie W.
Easterling, in Holbrook, Arizona on November 11, 1938. Margaret became
a career Army wife when Acie enlisted in 1943 and traveled with him in
many assigned post in Europe and the United States. In 1980 after
almost 20 years in California Margaret and Acie moved back to
Oklahoma and settled in Sayre, where she became active in a number of
clubs and church activities, and was a fervent supporter of Oklahoma
football. Last December Margaret moved from her home in Sayre to the
San Francisco Bay Area to live with her son Jeff and his family.