Faye Grabow

Funeral services for Faye M. Grabow, 85, of Canton, will be held at 10:00 a.m., Tuesday, June 9, 2009 at Canton Christian Church with Steve Driskill officiating. Interment will be in Canton Cemetery under the direction of Haigler-Pierce Funeral Home, Canton, OK. Faye was born on January 19, 1924 at Endicott, Kansas to Henry and Susie Hackney, and departed from this world Friday, June 5th, 2009 at Enid, Oklahoma. She graduated from High School at Eagle City, Oklahoma. She then worked at O.C.A.B. Tinker Field during the war as a parachute rigger. She married Fred J. Grabow in 1947 at his parents’ home in Watonga, Oklahoma. They raised one son, Charles O. Grabow. She worked for the company store at Southard and then had a beauty shop in her home for 18 years. After retiring she took correspondent courses in art and taught classes, besides ranching and farming with her husband Fred. She worked at U.S. Gypsum as a store clerk, election board judge, senior citizen center board, and librarian. She was a member of R.S.V.P., Eastern Star, Canton Christian Church where she taught a Sunday School Class and sang in the choir for many years, and church prayer chain. Faye also took a computer class, a first aid class and art class at the NW Technology Center. She loved to paint, play cards with her friends, traveling with Fred, gardening, and her cat, but most of all she loved her friends and family. She was a beautiful woman inside and out. She will be deeply missed. Faye was preceded in death by her parents; husband Fred Grabow; one son, Chuck Grabow; and nine sisters and four brothers; She leaves behind four grandchildren, C.J. Grabow, Tony Randin, Scott Blodgett and wife Ann, her shadow Angela Cantellay and husband Joey; and six great-grandchildren Chase, Zoey, Tanner, Tristen, Ethan, and Sabin. Memorials may be made to the Canton Christian Church or the Canton Senior Citizens with the funeral home serving as custodian. Condolences may be made online at www.haiglerpierce.com.