Obit for Floris posted by Jo Aguirre
Feb 23, 1920 - Jun 29, 2018

BARTLESVILLE EXAMINER-ENTERPRISE
BARTLESVILLE, WASHINGTON CO, OK
(permission granted)

Published in Examiner-Enterprise from July 8 to Aug. 7, 2018 

Floris Irene Stewart, 98, passed away Thursday, June 29, 2018, in Overland Park, Kansas, two days after suffering a stroke.

She was born in Meramec, Oklahoma, on February 23,1920, the only child of Albert and Alice Davis, and lived and went to school in Meramec until she left for college. She attended the University of Central Oklahoma, and met her beloved husband, Leslie Stewart, in Edmond. They married in 1943, and moved to Bartlesville, where they started their family. Irene taught 6th grade at the former Garfield Elementary and then at McKinley Elementary. She completed a master's Degree in library science and spent several years as both elementary teacher and school librarian. Altogether, she taught school for well over 30 years. Her husband, Leslie, was the longtime principal at Lincoln Elementary. They raised their two children in Bartlesville and were active members of First United Methodist Church and the 20th Century Sunday School Class. Irene volunteered at Jane Phillips Hospital was an active member of the Home Demonstration Club, and was a home test kitchen for Betty Crocker. She was a wonderful cook, an excellent seamstress, and an avid reader. After Leslie passed away in 1993, Irene remained in their home for several years, and then moved to Green Country Village. In 2013, she reluctantly left her beloved friends and Bartlesville and Oklahoma to relocate to Overland Park, Kansas, in order to be close to family. She lived at Overland Park Place nearly five years, continuing to read voraciously, sometimes a book a day, and to enjoy watching college and professional basketball and football on TV, even at the age of 98.

Survivors include a son, Rev. David Stewart (Nancy Bosché), Mission, Kansas; a daughter, Marsha Sims, Pueblo West, Colorado; four grandchildren, Amy Stewart-Deaker (James Deaker), Alameda, California; Laura Weaver (Tim Weaver), Portland, Oregon; Matthew Sims (Nicole Cohen), Brooklyn, New York; and Emily Sims (Kerry Jones), Pueblo West, Colorado. In addition, there are six great-grandchildren, Tobin and Zoe Deaker, Lex and Kylo Weaver, and Amelia and Rachel Jones.

A service and burial were held on July 2 in Bartlesville at Stumpff Funeral Home and Memorial Park Cemetery.

Contributions in memory of Irene Stewart may be made to Bartlesville First Church (United Methodist) or to Habitat for Humanity.

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