Miss Lorene Ford was born August 6, 1905, in Carrier, Ok. to Oscar E. and Etha I. Jones Ford and died Thursday, February 20, 2003 at the Great Plains Care Center in Helena.

Lorene received her BA from Phillips University in Enid and Masters from the University of Colorado. She taught high school English at Helena for 36 years and in 1962, was selected Alfalfa County Teacher of the Year and Helena-Goltry Masonic Teacher of the Year. She was a charter member of the Kappa Chapter of Delta Kappa Gamma, a professional sorority for teachers; past president of Alfalfa County Retired Teachers and of the Women's Christian Temperance Union, sponsoring essay and poster contests in the Helena-Goltry and Timberlake schools for 25 years with numerous national winner. An 80 year member of the Helena Christian Church, Lorene taught Sunday School, served on the Church Board, was church organist and pianist and active in C. W. F. and Bible Study.

In 1963 she went to Nigeria as a teacher in the Sudan Interior Mission Training Colleges, teaching in the women's school at Omu Aren and the college for men at Igbaga,. In 1966 she returned to the US. and taught English for five years at Markoma Bible Academy in Tahlequah.

Miss Ford's cremains were buried at Rose Hill Cemetery in Garfield Co. Ok. She was an inspiration to many students and always one we could call on for help in a grammatical situation.

She was preceded in death by two brothers, Loran and Ronald Ford. Surviving are three nieces, Annette Challacombe of Downey, CA., Marilyn Thorp of Helena, and Judy DeVaughn of Enid; two nephews, Lary Ford of Los Angeles, CA. and Jon Ford of Enid; 38 great and great-great nieces and nephews.