Osage Gardens Cemetery

Skiatook, Osage County, Oklahoma

Evelyn Elizabeth (Terrill) Strong

© Bartlesville Examiner-Enterprise Bartlesville, OK June 1, 2015 Submitted by: Ann Weber

Mrs. Evelyn Elizabeth (Terrill) Strong, 99, of Bartlesville, a Retired U.S. Postal Service worker, died at 1:00 P.M. on Thursday. Mrs. Strong was born on August 14, 1915 in the small town of Bigheart, Oklahoma to the late Leonard Lee and Mary Olive (Kephart) Terrill. She went to her heavenly home on May 28, 2015.

She was preceded in death by her father Leonard Lee Terrill, her mother Mary Olive Kephart Terrill, her husband Manson Earl Strong, her son Stephen Strong, and two brothers Clifford Terrill and Leonard Terrill, Jr.

Funeral Services for Mrs. Strong will be held at 2:00 P.M. on Tuesday June 2, 2015 at the East Bartlesville Christian Church, with Rev. Joshua P. Kerr, a nephew, and Rev. Chris Morton of the East Bartlesville Christian Church officiating. Interment will be in the Osage Gardens Cemetery at Skiatook, under the direction of the Stumpff Funeral Home & Crematory.

In lieu of flowers Evelyn has requested that memorial contributions may be sent to the Cookson Hills Christian Ministry 60416 State Highway #10 Kansas, OK. 74347, to the East Bartlesville Christian Church 3221 S.E. Tuxedo Blvd., or to the First Christian Church of Barnsdall, P.O. Box 725 Barnsdall, OK. 74002.

Evelyn is survived by her sister Marjorie Ransom of Alvin, Texas, her brother Bill Terrill, and wife Ann of Eloy Arizona, her niece Joyce Terrill Hurt and husband Joe of Barnsdall, Oklahoma, her niece Sandra Strong Wyrick and husband Vance of Leesburg Florida, a niece, Jane Terrill Moore of Arizona, a nephew, Doug Terrill of Arizona, as well as a host of great nieces and nephews and numerous friends.

Evelyn graduated from Barnsdall High School in 1932 as class Valedictorian. She attended Cameron College at Lawton, Oklahoma. Her marriage to Manson Earl Strong was on June 16, 1934. They were married just three months shy of 60 years before Manson passed away. In 1947 she became a mother to Stephen, who was her pride and joy.

She was a homemaker, and worked in her father's dry cleaning shop, and was a postal clerk at Barnsdall, Oklahoma. Later she and her dear friend Beva Sullivan started a private kindergarten at the Christian Church in Barnsdall from 1965- 1970. Also Evelyn was Director of Activities at the Barnsdall Nursing Home for several years. When she retired in 1979, Evelyn said she would never work for money again. Holding true to her statement, she volunteered at Jane Phillips Hospital in Bartlesville, Oklahoma for three years, putting in three thousand hours. She then volunteered in classrooms at Hoover Elementary in Bartlesville for many years. Working with small children was one of her greatest joys. Because of her dedication, she was awarded "Friend of Education" by Bartlesville Public Schools in 2003, and later nominated for the "Ageless Hero Award".

Evelyn was a longtime member of the First Christian Church in Barnsdall, Oklahoma and the East Bartlesville Christian Church, where she had been faithful to teach Sunday School and serve on the prayer quilt ministry.

Evelyn loved children, sewing, reading, doing puzzles, and cyrptoquotes, cooking, bread making, gardening, and being out in nature. She has been a true Christian example to her family, friends and many others she met throughout her lifetime.

Friends who wish may sign the online guest book and leave condolences at www.stumpff.org.

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