Molly Jeanne Adair Englander was born March 23, 1924 to Madison Bates Adair and Lois (Keller) Adair in the rural setting of Piney near Stilwell, Oklahoma. Jeanne died on April 21, 2018 at Oxford Glenn in Owasso, Oklahoma of natural causes at the age of 94.

Jeanne graduated from Stilwell High School in1943 and that same year she and her sister Juanita moved to Oklahoma City to work at Douglas Aircraft, during Rosie the Riveter era (World War II). After the war ended she held many different jobs. While living in Oklahoma City, Jeanne was baptized by Pastor Yader Tant in the Church of Christ.

In 1951, she went to Washington D.C. to care for her sister who had become ill. While there, she worked as an assistant to the auditor at Hotel Congressional on Capitol Hill. She said she loved getting an occasional glimpse of politicians in the dining room and loved her job! She met Victor, who was a professional photographer, working for Glogeau Studios. Victor was photographing a wedding being held in the Congressional Hotel ballroom. Mom was told by the cigarette girl that Dad had asked about her. They later met by chance at the local diner while Mom was enjoying a sandwich. Victor was an American, who had been born in Austria and raised in New York. Jeanne was smitten by him and they were married April 26, 1952.

They lived for three years in Washington D.C., then moved to Oklahoma City but only stayed a year. Vicki was born while living in Oklahoma City.

They then moved to Oakland, California where they stayed for over 20 years. While there, Jeanne worked at Kaiser Aluminum and Chemical Co. until she and Vic adopted Jerri Ann. Jerri Ann was eighteen months old at the time.

In 1975 Victor died of cancer. Her life with Vic was as good as it gets just too short. Mom loved nothing more than Oklahoma, her family and the farm. Once returning to Oklahoma, Jeanne had the opportunity to live on the family farm where she had been born. In 2007 she moved into Stilwell Senior Housing and stayed for about two years. She then moved to Glenpool to be closer to her sister, Leola. They had so much fun together.

Leola and Jeanne moved to Owasso in 2010 as Jerri Ann was close by.

Last August Jeanne moved to Oxford Glenn (assisted living), which was her last earthly home.

When she was 75 years old, her daughters took her on a Caribbean cruise. Oh the joy and memories they shared. This trip was so much fun that for her 80^th birthday the girls took her to New Orleans and up the Mississippi River on the American Queen riverboat.

Jeanne loved to sing, sew, quilt, paint, read, cook, decorate and entertain. She lived a rich life, full of family and love. Our beloved Jeanne will be missed.

She is preceded in death by: An infant son, her husband, Victor Englander, her parents,  M.B. and Lois Keller Adair, niece, Barbara Harmon, two nephews, Bobby Adair and Roger Adair, four brothers-in-law, Wilbur Owen, Ray Harmon, J.W. “Chuck” Ferguson, and Roger Cardwell, two sisters, Juanita Owen and Leola Harmon, one brother, John Edd “Jack” Adair and nephew-in-law: Scott Smith.

She is survived by two daughters and their husbands, Vicki and Mark Prouhet of Green Valley, Ariz. and Jerri Ann and Nathan Currey of Owasso, step daughter, Toni Nicholson of Mountain Home, Ark., Nancy Buchanan and grandson Jeff of Denton, Texas, two granddaughters and their husbands, Kelly and Martin Berry of Arlington, Va. And Emma and Cody Evans and their son, her great grandson Keith Evans of Catoosa, two step granddaughters: Shonda Horton and Nicole Stevens, two brothers and their wives, Bryce and Wilma Adair of Alva, and Bob and Mary Adair of Westville, one sister, Karen Ferguson of Livermore, Calif., and sister-in-law, Virginia Adair of Westville.. Numerous nieces, nephews, other relatives and friends

In lieu of flowers, please consider a memorial bequest to one of the following:

Hospice of Green Country, 1120 S Boston Ave # 200, Tulsa, OK 74119 Phone: (918) 747- 2273

Piney Cemetery, Jennifer Brantley, Rt 2 Box 1162, Stilwell, OK 74960, 918- 696-4477

Funeral services will be held at 1 p.m. on Saturday, April 28, 2018 at Roberts/Reed-Culver Chapel, Stilwell, with Gary Ferguson officiating. 

Interment to follow at Piney Cemetery, Stilwell with arrangements by Roberts/Reed-Culver Funeral Home, Stilwell, OK.