Ethel Reece Cemetery

Barnsdall, Osage County, Oklahoma

Priscilla Ann (Mullins) Stoabs

© Bartlesville Examiner-Enterprise Bartlesville, OK July 17, 2004 Submitted by: Jo Aguirre

Mrs. Priscilla Ann (Mullins) Stoabs, 95, widow of the late Henry Terrel Stoabs prominent Barnsdall business owners died at 10:25 a.m. on Saturday in Barnsdall.

Funeral services for Mrs. Stoabs will be held at 2:00 p.m. on Tuesday in the sanctuary of First Baptist Church, Barnsdall of which she was a member of 75 years. Rev. Robert Joe Reeves, her pastor, will be the officiant. Entombment will be directed in the Ethel Reece Cemetery by the Arnold Moore-Barnsdall Funeral Service.

Mrs. Stoabs will lie in state on Monday and Tuesday in the Arnold Moore-Barnsdall Funeral Home where friends may call for their visitation until she is removed to the church on Tuesday morning.

A native Oklahoman, Priscilla Ann Mullins was born September 19, 1908, one year after Statehood in Keifer. She was the daughter of the late Charles William and Emma (Thompson) Mullins. She received her education in the Keifer area and was graduated from Keifer High School with the Senior Class of 1926. She and Henry Terrel Stoabs were united in marriage on September 2, 1927 in Bartlesville. They established their home in Barnsdall and were active in ranching, banking and owned the Ford dealership. Her husband was the Stoabs Ford Agency for twenty years and was the first distributor of the world's first gasoline refinery merchandise of Barnsdall Oil Company and entered into extensive distribution of gasoline in North East Oklahoma filling stations. Fred Stoabs was President of the J.F. Stoabs and Sons Oil Company and was retired in 1969. A former President of the Barnsdall State Bank, he was made Chairman of the Board in 1969 and preceded Mrs. Stoabs in death on November 3, 1980 in Tulsa. Mrs. Stoabs became an executive secretary of the Bareco Wax Plant, a Division of the Petrolite Chemical Corporation until she was retired in l980. Following his death, she remained a resident of Barnsdall living in retirement.

Mrs. Priscilla Stoabs was an active member of First Baptist Church, served as a Sunday School teacher; member of the P.E.O. Sisterhood of Barnsdall for fifty years and a member of the Library Board. She was active with the Osage County Election Board and the Bloodmobile. She was chosen to serve as Parade Marshall for the "Bigheart Day" annual celebration in 1991.

Surviving Mrs. Stoabs are a son, James Frederick "Fred" Stoabs and Betty, Edmond, Oklahoma; five grandchildren, Tracy Ann Easley, Pawhuska, Oklahoma, James Terrel Stoabs, Edmond, Oklahoma, William Jack Stoabs, Anchorage, Alaska, Vickey Sebesta and Mary Wilkins, Tulsa, Oklahoma; five great grandchildren, Ryan Terrel Stoabs, Clearwater, Florida, Amy Easley, Pawhuska, Oklahoma; Adrienne Labadie, Stillwater, Oklahoma, Elizabeth Sebesta and Charlie Wilkins, Tulsa, Oklahoma and by a great great granddaughter, Adyla Labadie, Stillwater, Oklahoma.

In addition to the father, mother and husband, she was preceded in death by a son, Jack Terrel Stoabs, daughter-in-law, Mary Nell Stoabs and by a brother, Ernest Mullins.

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