Esther Elnora Redgate © Enid News and Eagle 04-20-2014 Submitted by: glenn
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ENID, OK — Funeral for Esther Elnora Redgate will be 2 p.m. Monday, April 21, 2014, at Waynoka school’s multipurpose building. Rodney Guy will officiate. Interment will be in Waynoka Municipal Cemetery. Arrangements are under direction of Marshall Funeral Home of Waynoka LLC.
Esther Elnora Redgate, daughter of the late Claude Edward and Rella Olivia (Nauerth) Guyer, was born January 22, 1923, on the farm near Waynoka, in Woods County, Oklahoma, and passed away April 17, 2014, in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, at age 91 years, 2 months and 24 days.
Esther graduated from Waynoka High School with the class of 1941, then attended business college in Wichita.
On July 3, 1943, she was united in marriage to Gerald Lloyd Redgate in Alva, Oklahoma.
She worked as a medical records librarian for E.P. Clapper Hospital and Share Medical Center.
She was also assistant hospital administrator at E.P. Clapper Hospital.
She then worked at Ampride until she retired in 1983. After living all of her life in Waynoka, she moved to Edmond in 2009 to be near her family.
She was a very active member of Northside Church of Christ and Memorial Road Church of Christ.
She also was a member of SEB Club, Red Hat Society and Friends of the Library, and one of the founding members of Waynoka Historical Society.
She was very community-oriented and helped in many church and local activities.
Besides her parents, she was preceded in death by husband Gerald and infant son Eddie Allen Redgate.
Esther is survived by two daughters, Sue Kelso and husband, Mike, of Kingwood, Texas, and Kay Elder and husband, Richard, of Edmond, Oklahoma; one brother, Charles Guyer and wife, Coleen, of Amarillo, Texas; two sisters, Allez Jamison of Waynoka and Jean Barker of Waynoka.
Also surviving are four grandchildren, Melinda Koteras and husband, Bruce, of Bartlesville, Marilee Hamby and husband, Clayton, of Houston, Matthew Kelso and wife, Lora, of Pfluggerville, Texas, and Elisha Elder of Weatherford; four great-grandchildren, Kadence and Cami Koteras and Levi and Cole Kelso; and other relatives and many friends.
Memorial contributions may be made through the funeral home to Nursing School Building Fund at Oklahoma Christian University.
Remembrances may be shared with the family at www.marshallfuneralhomes.com.
(Submitted by family)
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