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Audria Ann (Benton) Quisenberry passed away on September 24, 2024, after a long battle of Alzheimer disease. She is preceded in death by her parents R.R. Benton, Maxine Benton Chastain, her brother Paul Wayne Benton, her father-in-law Rowland Turner Quisenberry, mother-in-law Mary Ida Quisenberry.
Audria was born in Elk City, Oklahoma and moved to Woodward just before starting school. She attended all grades in Woodward, and graduated in 1965. She attended Southwestern Oklahoma State University receiving a bachelor degree in business in 1969. She married John Quisenberry during the summer of their senior year.
Upon graduation they made a home in Woodward while John completed his boot camp with the Marine Corps. After boot camp, they made a home in Carlsbad, California. The military housing was so old he had to sign a document stating that the housing was condemned as it was built during WWII as officer housing.
After his honorable discharge, they continued to live in the Oceanside/Carlsbad area as Audria had gotten a very good job as an accountant for a local business man. John found a entry level position with F.W. Woolworth company. This entry into retail will cause them to move many times, from California, to Oklahoma, to Louisiana, and finally to Missouri. Audria, always the loving and solid partner, was happy to "tag along", and made our house a home.
After six years and tiring with the Southern California life style, they decided to relocate to the Tulsa area, where Audria started with the Hallmark Corporation as an installer. After John was transferred one more time to Kansas City, Missouri, her experience as Hallmark installer helps her enter into the corporate office as an Installation Coordinator, responsible for the eastern third of the United States. She thoroughly enjoyed this responsibility and the atmosphere in and around the corporate office area. She continued with this position until her retirement in 2012.
One of her biggest joys was her two children, Ben and Kathleen. She became a stay-at-home mom and became involved in all their school activities, including home room mother during elementary school, president to the local PTA, and many, many bake sales, craft building, and support in whatever needed to be done.
After John's retirement, they moved back to the Tulsa area to be closer to family and especially her only granddaughter. They bought a home in Bixby and started some long-awaited travel plans. She especially enjoyed the two trips to Alaska, the Panama Canal and Novia Scotia. Unfortunately, the Alzheimer became more acute and the traveling came to an end.
She is survived by her husband, John in the home in Bixby. Ben and his wife Jennifer in Tulsa and Kathleen and her husband, Jason, along with her five grandsons, Cody, Tyler, John, Nathan, Conrade, and her granddaughter, Sloane, along with two great-grandchildren, John Marchall and David Ray.
In lieu of flowers, please make contributions to your local hospice organization or Hospice of Green Country, 3501 S. Yale Avenue, Tulsa, OK. 74135.
Memorial services will be held at 10:00 a.m. Tuesday, October 1, 2024 in the Billings Funeral Home Chapel. A private family burial will take place.
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