Woodward, Okla. — FAYE LUCILLE BEUKE, 85 year old longtime rural Woodward resident, died January 15, 2009 at Wolfe Living Center, Harrah, Oklahoma after an extended illness.
Funeral services will be held at 2:00 p.m. Saturday, January 17, 2009 at the First Baptist Church, Sharon, Oklahoma, with Reverend Beau Hague and Junior Zollinger officiating, burial will follow at the Elmwood Cemetery Woodward, Oklahoma, services are under the direction of the Nichols-Zwanziger Funeral Home of Woodward.
Faye Lucille (Ellis) Beuke was born October 27, 1923, in Darlington, Missouri to William Allen and Mamie Ellis. She moved with her parents to the Woodward area when she was about 4 years old. She accepted Christ as her personal Savior and was baptized at an early age and a Longtime member of the First Baptist Church of Sharon. She frequently shared her faith and love for the Lord with friends, personnel and residents of the nursing home. Faye was married to Melvin Ray Beuke on March 1, 1941. They had a wonderful loving Christian home for 53 1/2 years with Christ as the head of their home. He preceded her in death in August 1992.
She is survived by her daughter, Melvonna (Nonnie) Johnson and husband Earl Wayne Johnson of Choctaw, her son, Robert Larry Beuke and wife Beverly C. Beuke of Woodward, six grandchildren and thirteen great-grandchildren and two great-great-grandchildren and many other children that lovingly referred to her as Grandma Beuke, sister Fern Hohweiler and Husband Clarence of Guymon, a sister-in-law, Mazie Honeycutt, sister-in-law Vida Jarrett of Meridian, Idaho, and a host of other relatives and friends.
The family has requested that in lieu of flowers gifts be made to the Missions program through the First Baptist Church of Sharon.