Rosie Sutton Vandever

©Enid News and Eagle

01-2002

Submitted by: Jo Aguirre

©Glenn

Alva – The funeral for Rosie Ellen Vandever, 72, will be 11 AM Wednesday in Alva Church of God. The Rev. Bob Brown will officiate. Burial will be in Short Spring Cemetery. Arrangements are by Wharton Funeral Chapel.

She was born February 14, 1929, near Dewey to Margaret Annie Ooyme and James Albert Sutton and died Friday, January 25, 2002, at Integris Bass Baptist Health Center, Enid.

She attended Liberty Rural Grade School, then the Longdale school system. She went to Fairview and began work as a dishwasher at Maw Green Café, later becoming a cook. She was a waitress at Cornelson Coffee Shop before moving to Cherokee, where she worked in a café.

On March 29, 1954, she married John Cropp at Alva. They lived near Avard, then moved to Wichita, Kansas. They later returned to Avard, where they farmed and operated a dairy. They moved the dairy farm to Aline. She moved to Alva in 1964 and worked at Pangburn Café.

She married Henry Vandever July 5, 1972, in Cherokee. They lived in Alva, and she worked at Visa Diner for 14 years, retiring in 1989. She was a member of the Alva Church of God.

Surviving are two sons, Steve Cropp of Farmington, New Mexico, and Burt Cropp of Alva; three step daughters, Debbie Stockham of Tulsa, and Becky Walls and Lisa Stephens, both of Sand Springs; one brother, Everett Sutton of Stillwater; 16 grandchildren; and seven great-grandchildren.

She was preceded in death by her husband on October 11, 2000, four sisters and three brothers.

Memorials may be made to the churches building fund.

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