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Virginia M. McNair
© Stephens-Key Funeral and Cremation Care
Submitted by: Sharon

© Stephens-Key Funeral and Cremation Care


Virginia M. McNair
October 28, 1934 - December 30, 2024

Virginia M. McNair, 90-year-old Pryor resident, passed away on Monday, December 30, 2024, at the Grand Villa Care Center in Grove, Oklahoma surrounded by her family. She was born on October 28, 1934, in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma to Edward and Florence Opal (Watson) Godsy. Her family moved to Pryor during the war era and later to Salem Oregon, then to West Texas where her father worked in the oil fields. She was a graduate of Rankin, Texas High School, and continued her education at Northeastern State in Tahlequah. Virginia married Fields Edwin Branch in 1951 in Rankin, Texas and had 4 children, he passed away in 1965 in an off shore oil rig accident in the Gulf of Mexico. She moved her family back to the Pryor area where she later married Richard B. McNair. They had three children together. Richard was a rancher and owned Mill Street Motor's. Virginia opened a couple of businesses in Pryor, a wedding boutique, and a clothing boutique "Lacy's Boutique" named after a dear high school friend Lacy Whitehead. Virginia and Richard had a loving and large blended family. Richard also preceded her in death. She was a licensed real estate broker, and owned and operated her own realty business "McNair Realty" for 25 years. Virginia was a member of the First Baptist Church in Pryor and was a faithful Christian. She enjoyed the outdoors, had a green thumb for gardening, loved her pets, and decorating her home. Virginia liked to drink a glass of ice tea, be with her family and friends, and travel.

She was preceded in death by her husbands, Fields Edwin Branch and Richard B. McNair, a son, Richard Byron McNair, Jr., her parents, two brothers, Leon and Bob Godsy.

The family includes her children, Jeannine Howard and husband J. D. of Lexington, Kentucky, Darcus L. Vietti and husband Kevin of Georgetown, Texas, Sherry L. Emmons and husband Dallas of Grove, Oklahoma, Fields Brandon Branch of Tulsa, Lacy L. Brown and husband Larry of Tulsa, Margaret Dale of Sanger, Texas, Debra Hays and husband John of Yukon, Oklahoma, grandchildren, John and Buck Howard, Matthew Vietti, Emily Jackson, Rebecca Emmons, Dallas T. Emmons, Ashleigh Matthias, Adam Branch, London Brown, Heather Hilleman, Culley Lichten, Ann Byron Guditis, Kimberly Cobb, Markham Cobb, and sixteen great-grandchildren.

The family will receive friends from 6-8 p.m. on Monday, January 6, 2025, at the Stephens-Key Chapel in Pryor.

The Celebration of Life will be held on Tuesday, January 7, 2025, at 2:00 p.m. in the Stephens-Key Chapel in Pryor, with Chaplain Dan Weiser officiating. Interment will follow at the Graham Memorial Cemetery in Pryor. Online condolences may be made at www.stephens-key.com or on the funeral home Facebook page. Arrangements are in care of the Stephens-Key Funeral and Cremation Care of Pryor.

Preferred memorials, donations to your local SPCA of your choice would be her wish, since she had such a great passion for God's animals.

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