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© Stufflebean~Coffey Funeral Home Pauls Valley, Oklahoma February 2009 Winnie LaFaye [Yeats] Wigley July 3, 1919 ~ February 3, 2009 Winnie LaFaye Yeats Wigley passed on Tuesday, February 3, 2009. She was born July 3, 1919 at Sunnyside, Durant to William Harvey and Lela Hull Yeats, the 14th of 15 children. At age 4, she moved to Matoy to their family pre-statehood farm. Papa Yeats musical passion influenced all 15 children. This passion, combined with Roy Pickens and the Stamps Quarter heard on the radio, and chording suggestions from her brother Will, led to her piano playing debut at age nine at a brush arbor meeting. She sang and played on radio as soloist, for the Stamps Quartet, and for her student women gospel quartets, throughout the southwest. Winnie began her education career in the fall of 1940 in a two-room school at Pirtle, east of Durant, continuing to high schools, including Paoli, Wayne and Purcell. She was the first commercial teacher at Mid-America Vo-tech. She formed competitive women's gospel quartets, and during World War II, she, with her students, presented patriotic programs to sell war bonds, raising over $1,000. She graduated from the University of Southeastern State College (then the Southeastern Teachers' College) in 1942. Winnie and James Thadus Wigley were wed on August 20, 1948. After she retired in 1979, they focused on Christian work in their community and church, where Winnie was the pianist for all services until recently. Winnie is preceded in death by her beloved husband, J. T. Wigley. She is survived by her brother Willard Harvey Yeats of Shawnee, KS, her children, Wanda LaFaye Partnoy and her husband Robert of Charlotte, VT, Linda Wigley Phillips and her husband Lew of Stillwater, Jim Wigley of Edmond, Charles "Tuffy" Wigley and his wife Mia Lisa of Paoli her grandchildren, Robert Isenberger, Kevin Sweeney and his wife Robin, Courtney Phillips and his wife Julie, Matt Wigley, Krista Wigley, Zach Wigley, Jake Wigley and his wife Brooke, and Beth Wigley and her great-grandchildren, Duncan Sweeney, Morgan Sweeney, Rylan Wigley and Amanda and Anna Grace Phillips. Winnie truly leaves a heritage of wonderful service and music from the heart in worship to our Lord for us to cherish in our memory and keep alive her spirit. Funeral services will be held Saturday, February 7, 2009 at 1:00 pm in the Paoli First Baptist Church officiated by Rev. Don Chambers and Rev. Chuck Samples. Interment will be at the Paoli Cemetery under the direction of Stufflebean-Coffey Funeral Home. |
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