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Josephine Willa McBlair © Henninger-Hinson Funeral Home 12-2012 Submitted by: Jo Aguirre
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Willa Josephine McBlair was born May 30, 1930 in Geary, Oklahoma to Jesse and Hazel (Bell) Renfro. She lived in various cities during her childhood years, including Frederick, Oklahoma. On August 9, 1947, she married Rochester W. McBlair in Vernon, Texas. The couple moved to Enid, OK where they made their home and started a family. Three children were born unto this union.
Josephine was a homemaker that loved to sing. She loved to tell stories of singing with her sisters on the radio in the 1940s. In her later years, she loved attending karaoke night at the Elks Lodge. She loved music, jewelry, flowers, knick-knacks, attending church at Maine Street Nazarene, and baking. The smell of hot rolls would permeate the air at her house on any given day. She truly loved visiting with people in person and on the phone. She was always a kind, giving person that loved her family with all of her heart……a true matriarch. She never let any of her health problems weigh her down and she always had a zest for life.
Josephine passed from this world at Mercy Hospital in Oklahoma City, OK on January 15, 2016. She was preceded in death by her beloved husband, Rochester; three brothers, Buddy, Nathan, and Jack; and two sisters, Estelle and LaDonna. Josephine is survived by three children, Jim McBlair and wife, Judy; Linda Harris; and Mike McBlair and his wife, Nancy, all of Enid; one brother, Bob Renfro of Azle, Texas; and two sisters, Rosemary Coffee of Modesto, California, and Lucille Mitchell of Frederick, Oklahoma. She also leaves her legacy in seven grandchildren, 15 great-grandchildren, and several great-great-grandchildren. We will all miss her dearly.
Funeral services will be 2:00pm Tuesday, January 19, 2016 in the Henninger-Hinson Funeral Home Chapel with Pastor Tom Pullin officiating. Burial will follow in Memorial Park Cemetery.
Services are under the direction of Henninger-Hinson Funeral Home.
Memorial donations may be given through the funeral home to St. Jude’s Children’s Research Hospital or Make-A-Wish Oklahoma Foundation.
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