Mary Page

Mary Lou Page, longtime resident of Shidler, Oklahoma, passed Friday, September 18, 2015 at her home in Osage, Oklahoma. She was 88 years of age.

Mary Lou was born April 8, 1927 in Augusta, Kansas, the daughter of Winn H. Johnson and Rosie A. (Temple) Johnson. She was a graduate of El Dorado, Kansas High School. She was married to Phillip E. Page on May 3, 1947 in Eureka, Kansas. The couple made their first home in El Dorado before moving to Shidler in 1959. She was a longtime and very active member of the Shidler First Christian Church where she enjoyed playing the keyboard for many a Sunday. She relocated to Osage, Oklahoma in 2014 to live with her daughter Marsha. Her enjoyments were her grandson, two great grandsons, and playing the keyboard.

She is survived by her longtime best friend, Callie, her companion dog; two daughters, Pamela Sue Pritchard of Houston, Texas and Marsha Ann Nave of Osage, Oklahoma; one grandson, Kenneth Deckard and wife Candy, of Perkins, Oklahoma; two great grandsons, Cooper and Connor Deckard; numerous nieces and nephews, cousins, other extended family and friends. Mary Lou was a devoted wife, mother, grandmother and great grandmother. Her family loved her dearly and will miss her every day.

She was preceded in death by her parents; her husband Phillip in 1994; two sisters, Mildred Powers and infant sister Mary Lee Johnson; four brothers, Grady Johnson, E.W. Johnson, J.W. Johnson and Ernest Johnson; and one son-in-law, Carl J. Pritchard.

Funeral services will be held at 11 a.m. Thursday, September 24, 2015 at the Shidler First Christian Church with Pastor Doug Scott presiding. Interment will follow in the Grandview Cemetery in Kaw City. Arrangements are under the direction of Grace Memorial Chapel. Viewing will be held Wednesday from 8 a.m. until 8 p.m. at Grace Memorial Chapel.

Casket bearers are Richard Hammer, J.J. Gulic, Rick Hammer, Jack Sharp, Rick Johnson and Jace Gulic. Honorary casket bearers are Bob Ross, Leonard Williams, John Roe and Boyd Nave.

Mary Lou had requested that in lieu of flowers that memorial contributions be made to the First Christian Church, P.O. Box 72, Shidler, Oklahoma 74652.