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Wilbur Harry & Mary
Margaret (Heatly) Winters
Jester Cemetery
Plainview, Greer County, OK
  © Jeanette Perrin Coaly |
Obit for Mary posted by Jo Aguirre
Sep 8, 1917 - Feb 8, 2016
Greer Funeral Home
Granite, Oklahoma
(permission granted)
Mary Margaret Winters was born September 8, 1917 to Susan
Nettie Frans and Charles Monroe Heatly at Jester, Oklahoma. She passed away on
February 8, 2016 in Elk City Nursing Home at the age of 98 years, 5 months.
Mary Margaret attended school at Eastview and graduated in 1933. She received
her bachelor’s degree from Southwestern State College at Weatherford in 1938 and
her master’s degree from Southeastern State College in Durant, Oklahoma in 1957.
She married Wilbur Harry Winters on September 8, 1935 at Mangum Oklahoma. To
their union, three children were born, Wilbur Jr., Margaret Sue, and Judith
Anne.
Mary Margaret was a grade school teacher for 30 years. She taught at Reed, Vici,
Mangum, and Western Heights in Oklahoma City. Upon retirement in 1982, she and
Wilbur moved back to Mangum where they were both very active members of the
First United Methodist Church, Retired Teachers Association, and many other
civic activities.
She was preceded in death by her parents, her infant son Wilbur Jr., her husband
Wilbur, and her brother and wife Elmo and Daisy Heatly. She is survived by her
daughters Margaret Snipes and husband Rob of Elk City, Judith Benefiel and
husband John of Oklahoma City, grandchildren Dana Zimmerman and husband Hal,
Rhett Benefiel and wife Julie, Troy Benefiel, Susan Lyon and husband Emil, and
Will Snipes and wife Candise. Great-grandchildren are Mitchell, Kayla, Sidney
and Johnny Benefiel, Jack, Hal Jr. and Tamara Zimmerman, Adam Lyon, Benton
Snipes, and a tenth expected in July.
Funeral services will be held at 2 p.m. Tuesday, February 16 at the First United
Methodist Church of Mangum with Rev. Marsha Purtell officiating. Burial will
follow at the Jester Cemetery under the direction of Greer Funeral Home of
Mangum.
Online tributes may be made to the family at www.GreerFuneral.com
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