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Ramona Louise DeWitt © Roberts and Son Funeral Home 03-2020 Submitted by: Glenn
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February 17, 1926 - March 5, 2020
Ramona Louise DeWitt of Blackwell, Oklahoma, died late Thursday evening, March 5, 2020, in the Stillwater Medical – Blackwell at the age of 94 years.
Ramona Louise DeWitt was born on February 17, 1926, in Neosho Falls, Kansas, to Alfred Edwin and Edith (Tannahill) Cheney. Following her education she married Harry “Ed” DeWitt on February 10, 1943, in Blackwell and she began serving her family as a homemaker. She served in the Braman Methodist Church for over thirty years as a youth Sunday School teacher, in the United Methodist Women, funeral dinners and with the Annual Thanksgiving Bazaar. She also served as the Superintendent of Agriculture at the fair and worked with 4-H and F.F.A. She was a volunteer for the Blackwell Regional Hospital for over twenty years, as well as the Top of Oklahoma Historical Society Museum and the Blackwell Chamber of Commerce. She was a forty-five year member of the American Red Cross. When the couple moved to Blackwell she became active in the First Church of the Nazarene. Her husband preceded her in death and she continued to make Blackwell her home.
She is survived by a daughter, Mildred Wilkey; three sons, Ron DeWitt and wife Debbie of Sand Springs, Dale DeWitt and wife Carol of Braman and Bob DeWitt and wife Mary of Braman; a sister, Norma Peres of Braman; sixteen grandchildren; thirty-eight great grandchildren; and six great great grandchildren.
She was also preceded in death by her parents; and siblings, Eleanor Eggers, Evelyn Pappan, Alta Ricketts, Loetta Dale, Helen Stiles, Kenneth Cheney and Alvin Cheney.
Services are scheduled for 2:00 p.m., Monday, March 9th in the Roberts and Son Funeral Home Chapel with Rev. Cap McIlnay of Braman Methodist Church officiating. Burial will follow in the Braman Cemetery.
Casketbearers will be Troy DeWitt, Eddy DeWitt, Chris Wilkey, Andy DeWitt, Garrett DeWitt and Tim DeWitt. Serving as honorary casketbearers will be Traci Clemshire, Lia Graham, Lynae Moulton, Wyndy Harrill, Amy Geurion, Camille Holt, Katy Goodenough and Holly Light.
A memorial has been established in her honor with Blackwell Regional Hospital Volunteers in c/o Roberts and Son Funeral Home, 120 W. Padon, Blackwell, Oklahoma 74631.
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