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Margaret Gayle Crisp © Stephens-Key Funeral and Cremation Care of Pryor Submitted by: Sharon
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Margaret Gayle Crisp
August 21, 1957 - May 22, 2016
Margaret "Gayle" Crisp (Unrau) was born on August 21, 1957 in Pryor, Ok to Rahlen C. and Margaret (Kroeker) Unrau. She died peacefully at her home in rural Inola on May 22, 2016 at the age of 58 years, 9 months and 1 day, after a year long battle with cancer.
Gayle lived most of her life in the Chouteau/Inola area. She attended Longview Grade School and Chouteau High School and graduated with honors from Newton High School, Newton, Kansas. She attended Tulsa Junior College and Rogers State College. She loved the outdoors and started working for the forestry and parks departments in Oklahoma and Kansas.
On October 23, 1981, she and Larry John Crisp were married in Las Vegas, Nevada. They moved to a farm just down the road from her childhood home, 3/4 miles east of the Mayes/Rogers County line on old highway 33. There she cared for her family, keeping an immaculate house and keeping up with a growing and busy family and tending to a bounteous vegetable garden and a profusion of floral delights.
After the children were in school, Gayle went to work, and became an outstanding professional waitress for many years; serving the customers at the Eastside Cafe in Pryor. She was a gifted musician, playing the piano, oboe, saxophone and guitar. She was also a poet who expressed her concerns and joys in rhyme.
She loved her family and reveled in lake outings and camping at their cabin. She treasured her grandchildren and enjoyed playing with them immensely. She spent many hours preparing photo albums so that her children and grandchildren would have a permanent reminder of their childhood and family times. She read to all of her children from infancy, and she was so thrilled with the outstanding academic success each one achieved.
Her passion, generosity and hard work were often unnoticed. Her strengths in adversity often overlooked. This past year of illness and cancer treatments were full of physical and emotional pain as she fought to continue to live for the family she so dearly loved and who will always miss her.
Gayle is survived by her husband, Larry of the home; son David Crisp and wife Laura of Birmingham, MI, son Shawn Crisp and wife Jill of Broken Arrow, son Dustin Crisp of the home, daughter Shanon Crisp of the home; stepson Josh Crisp and wife Amanda of Broken Arrow and stepson Jared Crisp and wife Stephanie of Pryor; grandchildren, Addison, Colton, Audrey, Dane, Makaya and Anna. She is also survived by her mother, Margaret Unrau (Kroeker) of Chouteau, brother Steve Unrau and wife Brenda of Inola and sister, Sharon Nance and husband Sam of Dallas, Texas.
She was preceded in death by her father, Rahlen C. Unrau.
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