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Rita Jo Tuttle, 66, of Guymon passed away Wednesday evening, August 24, 2022 at the Memorial Hospital of Texas County.
The daughter of Billy Joe Castlebury and Catherine Madeline (Clawson) Castlebury, she was born October 29, 1955 in Paris, Texas. Rita was raised in Lubbock, Texas. In 1971, Rita moved to Guymon, Oklahoma and graduated from Guymon High School with the Class of 1974. While attending GHS, she was active on the speech and debate team and she also met the love of her life, Steve. She married Steve Tuttle on July 11, 1975 in Clayton, New Mexico.
Steve and Rita attended OPSU and are lifetime alumni members. In 1975, Steve and Rita opened Sound Service/Radio Shack in Guymon, where Rita mastered the accounting processes and maintained the IT infrastructure. They also operated stores in Liberal, Kansas and Dumas, Texas for ten years. In 1987, Steve and Rita purchased the Vestal Motel and operated it as the Pioneer Motel until 2021. Sound Service celebrates 47 years of operation this year.
Rita’s hobbies included bowling, traveling, gardening and crafting. Rita bowled in the local women’s league and competed multiple times in the USBC Women’s championship. She regularly took the family on numerous road trips to Consumer Electronics Shows, Pageants, Maker Faires, and camping in the RV at the Walnut Valley Festival in Winfield, Kansas. Rita volunteered her time as a Girl Scout Troop Leader and Service Unit Treasurer in Guymon for four years; she also always enjoyed road trips to volunteer staff at American Pageants State and National Programs with her daughter from 2008 through 2017.
In late 2020, Rita was diagnosed with stage four lung cancer. After two hard years of fighting through chemo and radiation (and finishing 2021 taxes!) she passed on. Rita was preceded in death by grandparents Bessie and JT Clawson, her mother, Catherine Castlebury, her father, BJ Castlebury and her two brothers, Cecil Castlebury and Joe T. Castlebury.
Survivors include her husband Steve of Guymon; daughter Kim Smith and husband Drew of Goodwell; son Nick Tuttle and wife, Brooke of Guymon, and two grandchildren: Caleb and Catherine. She is also survived by sister, Nancy Gossett and husband, Craig Staats of Goddard, Kansas; brother Billy Joe Castlebury, Jr. of Cassiville, Missouri; sister-in-law Cynthia Castlebury of Orlando, Florida; And cousin Deborah Patterson of Guymon.
Memorial services will be conducted Friday morning, September 2 at 10:00 a.m. at the Bunch – Roberts Funeral Home in Guymon with Deacon Davin Winger officiating.
In lieu of flowers, memorials in honor of Rita can be made to the American Pageants Inc. Foundation or the Slokey & John C. Tuttle Memorial Scholarship at the Panhandle State Foundation. Friends can sign the online guest book and leave condolences at www.bunchroberts.com.
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