Maggie Maxine Galloway

Maggie M. (Fields) Galloway, age 90, of Tulsa, Oklahoma, died September 4, 2024. Maggie was born May 13, 1934 in Sidney, West Virginia to Ernest and Martha (Smith) Fields. She joined the U.S. Air Force in 1952 where she met Joe W. Galloway in Tacoma, Washington and they married in 1956. She was awarded the National Service Medal and Good Conduct Medal and remained proud of her service. She left the Air Force shortly after marriage as a TSgt since service women were not allowed to have children at the time. Maggie and Joe had three children, Jeffrey, Joseph and Martha. Joe remained in the Air Force, retiring in 1969. They moved a number of times, like most military families and eventually settled in Edmond, Oklahoma. Maggie attended Central State University (now UCO) full time, worked in retail, and as a loving and devoted mother, she never missed her children's events. Later, Maggie and Joe moved to Wagoner, where Joe taught High School and Maggie worked at the Carnegie Library. They lived in Wagoner about 20 years and moved to Tulsa when Joe retired. They were members of Southeast Freewill Baptist Church in Tulsa and thoroughly enjoyed the fellowship - Maggie and Joe were both diligent in their biblical studies. Throughout her life, Maggie was an avid genealogist and passionate, family historian. Both she and Joe spent countless hours traveling to courthouses, cemeteries and visited with cousins far and wide. Later, she learned to use the internet to do this work and was able to help many with their ancestry. She collected hundreds of family photos, which she shared freely with relatives and local genealogy associations. They enjoyed frequent travel to spend time with family. Maggie was from Wayne County, West Virginia and was quite proud of her dialect, culture, musical tradition and history. She fondly remembered large family gatherings of good farm-raised food and non-stop storytelling, picking and singing. Those days are gone but are remembered in her shared historical legacy. Maggie was preceded in death by her parents (Ernest and Martha (Smith) Fields, her husband of 55 years, Joe W. Galloway, her son, Jeffrey C. Galloway, sisters Dixie Walker and Christa Senters. She is survived by her son Joe B. Galloway and Martha M. Galloway and her grandchildren Jarrett Galloway and Mary Galloway, siblings Betty Chapman and Ernie Fields, and numerous nieces and nephews. She loved deeply and was deeply loved. She lived by and found comfort in this verse "God so loved the world that He gave His one and only Son, that whoever believes in Him shall not perish but have eternal life." John 3:16 Visitation will be at Moore Funeral Home (Southlawn), Tulsa, OK Saturday, September 7 from 4-6:30pm, and interment at Fort Gibson National Cemetery, Fort Gibson, OK at noon Monday, September 9.

Maggie Maxine Galloway

May 13, 1934 - September 4, 2024