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Graveside service for Bobbie Jean (Stevens) Woods, 75, Fairview, will be at 11: 00 a.m., Friday, December 15, 2017 at the Fairview Cemetery. Reverend Andrew Haire will officiate. Arrangements are by Fairview Funeral Home Inc.
Over sixty years ago a beautiful skinny little girl named Bobbie danced for the first time with a young skinny boy named Don.
Bobbie Jean Stevens was born in the Hollywood Hospital in Hollywood, California on August 20, 1942 to Robert and Betty (Brown) Stevens. Bobbie died December 10, 2017 at the Fairview Regional Medical Center after a 3 year battle with kidney cancer.
Bobbie's parents divorced when she was quite young and she was shuffled between her mother and various relatives until her mother remarried. Her step-father Gene Beavers went to optometry school in Memphis where Bobbie attended a Catholic school with a ruler-armed nun for her teacher. She moved to Fairview in 3rd grade. She was in 4-H, Pep Club and was editor of the school annual. Cliff Clark (the HS band director) asked her to play the xylophone and she loved playing in the band. Bobbie graduated in 1960. She has worked for many years with the Fairview Alumni and loved having get-togethers with her classmates.
Bobbie married Donald Woods on August 26, 1961 and they lived many places while Don was in the military and finishing his teaching degree. Bobbie worked at Smith Drug in Fairview, for Sears in Enid and for the Department of Agriculture in OKC. She moved to Fairbanks, Alaska in 1965 where she finished her degree in Elementary Education at the Univ. of Alaska. After moving to Farmington, New Mexico then Aline, OK they finally moved back to Fairview where she spent the rest of her life.
Bobbie started her teaching career with a Pre-School in Fairview then taught Kindergarten at Progressive School southeast of Fairview while completing a Master’s Degree in Special Ed at SWOSU in Weatherford, OK. She then taught at Pioneer HS south of Enid and retired after teaching for several years at Cornelsen Elementary in Fairview. She loved her students and they loved her!
She was a loving wife and mother, Cub Scout den mother, a Girl Scout leader and sponsored countless school activities, fund raisers, bus trips etc.. She belonged to the Ambucs and worked the local blood drives. She has attended the Methodist Church for many years and served as a Sunday school teacher.
Bobbie was preceded in death by her parents, her brother Bus and an infant brother Paul David.
She is survived by: her husband Don and their children; Timothy and Wife Theresa, Daniel and Wife Hollye, Amber and Husband Aaron; her grandchildren; Daniel II, Benjamin, Allison, Joseph, Kaitlyn and Eleanore; her sister Beau and her family; her brother Robert Stevens II and many other nieces, nephews, cousins, relatives and friends.
Don and Bobbie danced through life together and will continue to dance forever and ever! Amen
In lieu of flowers, memorials can be made to the Fairview Regional Medical Center or OMRF – Caner Division with the funeral home acting as custodians of the funds.
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