Marydel Plew Vanderwork

© Enid News and Eagle

01-08-2009

Submitted by: Jo Aguirre

© Glenn

Marydel Vanderwork, dearly loved by her family, friends, church, and community, passed from this earthly life on Monday, Jan. 5, 2009, at the age of 91.

Marydel was born to Edd and Clyde Plew on October 18, 1917, in Humphreys, Oklahoma.

She graduated from high school at the Ozark School in Jackson County in 1935, and attended Altus Junior College and Oklahoma A&M in Stillwater. On April 30, 1938, she married Charles Vanderwork in Tryon, Oklahoma. After their marriage, they lived and raised a family on the farm Charles' father homesteaded in 1893, near Waukomis , Oklahoma, in the Pioneer community.

Marydel and Charles moved to Enid in 1979, where Marydel continued to reside after Charles' death in 1990. In 2000, she moved to Edmond to be closer to family.

Marydel was preceded in death by her parents; husband Charles; a son, Danny and a daughter, Ramona Dobson; two grandchildren, an infant grandson and Lyric Vanderwork; two brothers, Leo Plew and Pat Plew; and one sister, Maudine Vanderwork.

She is survived by two daughters, Nancy Jane and her husband, Don Friesen of Edmond and Shari Vanderwork of Sugar Land, Texas. She is also survived by a son-in-law, Max Dobson and his wife, Marilyn of Edmond; five grandchildren and their spouses, Tami and Bill Robbins, Todd and Dee Dobson, Kara and Rich Foster, Kela and James Baird, and Teri and Scott Mueller; 13 great-grandchildren; and one brother, Max Plew, of Altus.

She is a member of the body of Christ and attended North Garland (formerly Eighth and Maine) Church of Christ in Enid, Garriott Road Church of Christ, Enid, and, most recently, Memorial Road Church of Christ in Edmond.

Marydel and Charles were active 4-H members throughout their youth and first met on a trip to the National 4-H Club Congress in Chicago in 1933. They subsequently remained involved in 4-H for many years with their family. Marydel was also a member of the Garfield County Rural Rotatory Club, a charter member of the Junior Farmerette Extension Homemakers Group, and in 1962, was the first woman chosen for induction into the Garfield County Agricultural Hall of Fame. She was famous for the delicious cakes, cookies, and pies she baked and for the loads of food she cooked for farmhands. Those who knew her best, however, will remember her most for her gentle, yet strong, enduring spirit . . . stunningly woven of simple pleasantness and unparalleled grace, and evidenced most remarkably in her hours of adversity and sorrow.

Truly blessed with the heart of a servant to God, to her family and to her community, Marydel was a hard-working woman who put others first, never complained, and lived a full and contented life. Through the gracious life she led, she humbly manifested to all who came to know her the fruits of God's Holy Spirit: love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, and self-control.

Marydel last resided at Concordia Nursing Center in Oklahoma City under the compassionate care of Good Shepherd Hospice and the Concordia staff.

Services will be held at 2 p.m. Saturday, Jan. 10, 2009, at the Garriott Road Church of Christ, Enid, with burial to follow at the Waukomis Cemetery . Arrangements are by Ladusau-Evans Funeral Home.

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