Oklahoma Cemeteries Website
Click
here
to break out of frames
This information is available for free.
If you paid money for a
subscription to get to this site, demand a refund.
Christina (Jameson)
McCurtain
Jul 26, 1937 - Dec 19, 2019
Posted by:
Jo Aguirre
Havenbrook
Funeral Home & Cremations
(permission granted)
Christina Jameson McCurtain, 83, died on Thursday, December 19, 2019 in
Norman, OK.
She was born on July 26, 1936 in her parent’s home in Sulphur Township,
McCurtain County, OK, the fifth of seven children of Bertha Pinkney
Billingsley and Leslie Edward Jameson.
After graduating from Gray High School in Idabel, OK in 1954 she attended
the University of Oklahoma earning a bachelor degree and a Master of Social
Work in 1965. It was in graduate school she met the love of her life and
future husband, Mike McCurtain, who was also earning an MSW. They were
married on May 29,1965 at First Presbyterian Church in Norman after
receiving their master’s degrees.
The next four years, Christina and Mike lived in San Jose, CA. They decided
to begin a family before Christina began her professional career. Their
daughter, Judith, and son, Benjamin, were born in 1966 and 1968,
respectively. In 1969, the family moved to Topeka, KS where Christina
continued as a stay at home mom until the children were in middle school.
She was a psychiatric social worker at Topeka State Hospital for many years.
In 1984, she completed a third-year post masters social work training
program at The Menninger Foundation, an educational and psychiatric
treatment facility. After she left Topeka State, she did quality assessments
for Beverly Enterprises and was a social worker for Midland Hospice before
retiring in 2000. In 2005, Christina and Mike returned to Norman, OK.
Christina had become very interested in genealogy and became a member of
three linage societies. She was accepted as a member of the Black Beaver
Chapter of the National Society Daughters of the American Revolution in
2009. She was very active in DAR, holding many leadership roles, including
Registrar. Her enthusiasm and willingness to help other women to search
their linage to obtain membership in DAR was well respected. She was able to
trace her lineage back to three Patriots. She was also accepted as a member
of the Red Bud Chapter of The National Society Colonial Dames XVII Century,
the Cameo Club (part of DAR) and Order of the Steel Magnolias. She enjoyed
trips to cemeteries and genealogy libraries to search for ancestors to learn
more about their lives.
Christina was a blood and platelet donor for many years, donating over 6
gallons of blood. She was a life member of the University of Oklahoma. She
was a member of the League of Women’s Voters in Norman and a proud
democrat.
Christina and Mike endowed two scholarships. One honoring Christina’s mentor
and Mike’s mother, Eloise McCurtain, at the University of Oklahoma School of
Social Work. The other honoring their son, Benjamin Jameson McCurtain, at
Carnegie Mellon University.
Christina was preceded in death by her parents, sisters Thelma Marie Gerhard
and Wilma Charlene Bitting, brothers James Edward Jameson and Robert Lee
Jameson, and her son, Benjamin Jameson McCurtain.
She is survived by her husband of 54 years Mike, her daughter Judith
McCurtain (Michael) Boland, sisters Eunice Eloise (Wesley) Fox and Patricia
Ann (Kenneth) Qualls, and numerous nieces, nephews, cousins, grandnieces,
grandnephews, great nieces, great nephews, Precious cats Clarissa and
Traveler, and many friends.
Christina was cremated.
A memorial service will be held at First
Presbyterian Church, 555 South University Blvd., Norman OK on Monday,
January 6, 2020 at 2:00pm.
Inurnment will be at a later date at Canfield
Cemetery, Idabel, OK. In lieu of flowers, please honor Christina with a
contribution to a charity of your choice.
|Canfield Cemetery| |McCurtain
County Cemeteries| |Home|
This site may be freely linked, but not duplicated in any way without consent.
All rights reserved! Commercial use of material within this site is prohibited!
© 2000-2024 Oklahoma Cemeteries
The information on this site is provided free for the purpose of researching your genealogy. This material may be freely used by non-commercial entities, for your own research, as long as this message remains on all copied material. The information contained in this site may not be copied to any other site without written "snail-mail" permission. If you wish to have a copy of a donor's material, you must have their permission. All information found on these pages is under copyright of Oklahoma Cemeteries. This is to protect any and all information donated. The original submitter or source of the information will retain their copyright. Unless otherwise stated, any donated material is given to Oklahoma Cemeteries to make it available online. This material will always be available at no cost, it will always remain free to the researcher.
