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Irene Estle, 82 year old Sharon resident, passed away Friday, January 29, 2021 in Woodward. A memorial service to celebrate her life will be held at 3:00 p.m. Friday, February 5, 2021 in the Billings Funeral Home Chapel with Reverend Sharon Cochran officiating. A private family burial will be held at a later date. The service will be live streamed on the funeral home website and Facebook.
Irene Faye (Watson) Estle was born on July 16, 1938 to Wilber Frank and Eithel Margaret (Loomis) Watson. Growing up on the family farm west of Sharon, Oklahoma you would see her working on the farm or in the Dairy with her mother also stepping in her Daddys foot steps to be just like him. Starting to school in a country school, then in the 3rd grade at Sharon and graduated from Sharon High School with the class of 1956 and later from Enid Beauty School.
At an early age she accepted Christ as her Savior and was a member of the Sharon Methodist Church. Attending church was important to Irene while raising the girls, with teaching Sunday School, Vacation Bible School, working with the youth of the church and she was past president of the Methodist Womens Group.
2 Samuel 22: 3 My God is my rock, in whom I take refuge, my shield and the horn of my salvation. He is my stronghold, my refuge and my Savior from violent men you save me.
On March 24, 1956, she and Phillip Dean Estle was married in the Sharon Methodist Church. To this union four children was born: Ronnie Dean, Sandra Kay, Nancy Ann and Jeanice Fay. Dean and Irene were married almost 65 years. Irene was a stay at home Mom(Philippians 4-13, I can do everything through him who gives me strength). In 1962, she opened her beauty shop in the home, running girls and friends (also Virginia and friends) to ballgames, cheerleading camp or where ever they needed to go, sewing for the girls and babysitting all the time while working in the beauty shop. Yes a stay at home mom!
Dean and Irene started farming and ranching in 1972 after the death of Dean’s father. After 17 years as a beautician she put her cutting shears in retirement and started driving wheat trucks, tractors and working cattle with Dean full time. You could see her often with one or more of the Grandkids in the field, deer stand, checking cattle or taking cookies (oh yes, had to be chocolate chip) to great-grandad Wilber or on a roof helping a grandson shingle his house. She loved Dean, the girls, grandkids and great-grandkids and always was glad to have them around her.
After living in Sharon for 42 years, her and Dean moved to Canton Lake area, so Dean could fish, making friends along the way and returning back to the farm in 2007 and living there ever since. Irene was a big fan of OU and the Thunder. She enjoyed sewing, her flowers and yard, she always felt closest to God while working in the flower beds.
Irene was preceded in death by her son Ronnie Dean, parents Wilber and Eithel Watson, in-laws Fred and Mildred Estle, grandparents, one sister, two brothers, two brothers-in-law and a son-in-law. She leaves to cherish her memory, her husband Dean; three daughters Sandra and husband Ed Wilcox, Nancy Longhofer and husband Larry, Jeanice Taylor; grandchildren: Phillip, Todd, Jennifer, and Tina Mullins, Levi and Cindy Spencer, Tyson, Trent, Trevor Taylor; 15 great-grandchildren; one sister Virginia Ham and husband Gary; many nieces, nephews other family, friends and church family.
Memorial contributions may be made to the Sharon United Methodist Church with the funeral home accepting the contributions.
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