Maxine Pingree

Maxine (Hayes) Pingree was born March 17, 1919 in Carthage, Missouri. She graduated from Carthage High School and shortly thereafter married her high school sweetheart, Fay Pingree. They spent the war years in Tampa, Florida where Fay was stationed with the Army Air Corps. Maxine loved the memories of their early years together and the time they spent in Tampa. After the war, she and Fay moved back to Oklahoma City. Fay re- joined OTASCO, where he would work for over 50 years. Maxine and Fay started their family, and they designed and built their dream house in Oklahoma City. After only six months in their dream house, Fay was transferred in 1955 to Wichita, Kansas, where they were to live for the next 10 years. There they were active with their OTASCO activities and travels, and both developed lifetime friendships. Maxine especially enjoyed and treasured her enduring friendships with special friends Melba Harris, Jean Terrell, and Bernice Nance. In 1965, she and the family moved to Tulsa, where she lived until her death on July 16 this year. Maxine was an intelligent, capable woman with a quick wit, a wonderful sense of humor, and she was fun. She took pride, in being a homemaker and in creating a loving, well managed, and beautiful home. She served many years as a leader of the Campfire Girls and was a Boy Scout Den Mother. Maxine was an accomplished seamstress; when the kids said that "Diane's mother makes all her clothes" it was the highest compliment. After 25 years' of service, she and Fay joined the Five Diamond club, which was an important activity with good friends that they continued to enjoy after Fay retired. After her family, Maxine's greatest passion was sports. At 95 she was up to date on players, rankings, and statistics. She "knew" all the players and their families, including their character (or lack of), where they went to college, who their coaches were, and where they played prior to their current team. She continued to amaze friends and familv with decades of information on baseball, football, golf, and basketball, and most recently had begun to follow NASCAR. With passionate but invariably clean language, she would vigorously harangue an umpire or correct a commentator's facts. Maxine shared the last hours of her life with family and friends watching the baseball All Star game. This is almost certainly exactly as she would have wanted, and it was fitting since she was, in so many ways, an All Star herself. She now plays on a team that is out of this world, but she will be loved and missed by all of us who are left behind. Visitation 3-5 p.m., Sunday, Moore's Eastlawn Chapel, service 11:00 a.m. Monday, July 21, 2014, Boston Ave. UMC, interment Memorial Park Cemetery. Moore's Eastlawn Chapel, 918-622-1155

Maxine Pingree

March 17, 1919 - July 16, 2014