Submitted & © by Jeanne Crissup

Adeline Josephine (LeCrone) Gower

© Enid Morning News, Enid, OK

Nov. 30, 2008

Submitted by Jeanne Crissup

Adeline Josephine (LeCrone) Gower

Adeline Josephine LeCrone Gower was born Jan. 13, 1911, in Kennard, Neb., to Edgar H. and Kristina Svoboda LeCrone and passed away Thursday, Nov. 27, 2008, in Helena, OK.

Adeline and her family moved from Nebraska to Minnesota in 1915, and she came to Oklahoma from Minnesota on the train with her three brothers in 1917, shortly after the death of her mother. She attended a one-room school called "Toothpick" and graduated from Helena High School in 1928 College at Oklahoma A&M brought more than just a degree in 1935 for Adeline as this is where she met Glen Gower. Adeline taught at Timberview School two years, and then Glen and Adeline were married in Tulsa, OK, on May 1, 1936.

Glen worked in Tulsa until 1945, when the family moved to Norman, where Glen worked for Gilt Edge Dairy and Electrolux. They moved to Helena in 1952, where Glen farmed and Adeline kept busy raising their family, quilting and cooking at Helena Nursing Home from 1966 to 1975.

Adeline was active as a Camp Fire Girls Leader in Norman and as a member of Helena Homemakers Club, United Methodist Women, Helena United Methodist Church, where she was a Sunday School teacher for many years, past treasurer of Good Hope Cemetery and Helena Senior Citizens. She was an accomplished quilter, but mostly she was a wonderful mother to her four daughters and a beautiful wife to Glen. Glen and Adeline were fortunate enough to celebrate almost 65 years of marriage before he passed away in February 2001.

Adeline was predeceased by her husband, Glen; four brothers, Albert, Winston, Dannie and Freddie LeCrone; her parents and her stepmother, Addie, and many of her much-loved Gower in-laws.

She is survived by her four daughters, Marguerite McMurtrey and husband, Ronal of Cherokee, OK; Glenda Brown and husband, James Logan of Austin, Texas; Diana Jo Whitfield and late husband, Randy of Austin; and Betty Collins and husband, John of Caney, KS; eight grandchildren, Rhonda McMurtrey of Oklahoma City, Brenda McMahan and Douglas McMurtrey of Cherokee, Susan Snook of Fountain Hills, AZ, Jennifer Millington of Cooper City, FL, Kristine Whitfield of Austin, Christopher Collins of Tulsa and Clayton Collins of Stillwater, OK; and six great-grandchildren, Sarah and Julia Snook, Megan and Curtis McMahan and Molly and Patrick Millington.

Funeral services will be held at 2 p.m. Monday, Dec. 1, 2008, at Helena United Methodist Church in Helena with Adeline's granddaughter, The Rev. Susan Snook, officiating. Burial will follow in Good Hope Cemetery, outside Helena, with arrangements by Lanman Funeral Home Inc. of Helena. Viewing will be 2-6 p.m. today with the familiy being present from 2-4 p.m.

Online condolences may be shared with the family at www.lanmanmemorials.com.

In lieu of flowers, memorials may be made to Helena United Methodist Church of Oklahomans for Special Library Services through the funeral home.

Submitted & © by Jeanne Crissup