Graveside service for Christine (Herndon) Provence Schulte will be at Sunset Memorial Gardens.
Arrangements are under the direction of Becker-Rabon Funeral Home.
Due to the ongoing pandemic, the family requests that masks be worn at the service.
Christine (Herndon) Provence Schulte passed away in Round Rock, Texas on Thursday, November 5th, 2020, in the presence of her loving daughter, Sandra.
She was born on October 1, 1927 in Madill, Oklahoma to W. C. “Pete” and Ossie (Biles) Herndon. She graduated from Madill High School in 1945 followed by earning an associate’s degree at Murray State School of Agriculture in Tishomingo, Oklahoma in 1947. It was there she met Elmer A. Provence. They married on Oct 16, 1948 in Stillwater, Oklahoma. She earned her B.S. in Business from Oklahoma State University in 1956.
After graduation, she and Elmer moved to Lawton, Oklahoma where she worked as a bookkeeper from 1957 until 1963 when they adopted their daughter Sandra Kay. The family then moved to Altus, Oklahoma in 1965.
Christine returned to school at Southwestern State University in Weatherford, Oklahoma and graduated in 1971 with a second Bachelor’s Degree in Business Education. She became a business teacher at Altus High School in 1971 and taught general business classes and typing. Many of her students fondly remember their experiences with her and credit her with their success in business. She continued teaching at Altus High School through the 1984 school year.
In 1984, she and Elmer both retired and moved to their farm outside of Sterling, Oklahoma, where she attended the First Baptist Church and was a member of the Sterling Ladies Town & Country Club and the Arts & Craft Club. She was also a member of the Comanche County Retired Educators Association and the Oklahoma Retired Educators Association.
Elmer Provence passed away on Dec 17, 1997. She lived alone in the house she and Elmer built until March 2, 2002, when she married Henry J. Schulte. The Schulte’s lived together on his farm on the opposite site of the same highway that bordered the Provence farm until Henry passed away on April 8 of 2006.
She continued to be active in the social life of her community of Sterling until stricken with illness in 2016 when she moved to Austin, Texas in order to be closer to her daughter.
She is survived by her daughter, Sandra Kay Steele, her son-in-law, Anthony Steele and her two grandchildren, Alyssa and Gregory all of Austin, Texas.
She was preceded in death by her parents Pete and Ossie; her sisters: Janice Robinson and Betty Jane Matthews and her brother, Grover Herndon.
Source: Becker-Rabon Funeral Home
Arrangements are under the direction of Becker-Rabon Funeral Home.
Due to the ongoing pandemic, the family requests that masks be worn at the service.
Christine (Herndon) Provence Schulte passed away in Round Rock, Texas on Thursday, November 5th, 2020, in the presence of her loving daughter, Sandra.
She was born on October 1, 1927 in Madill, Oklahoma to W. C. “Pete” and Ossie (Biles) Herndon. She graduated from Madill High School in 1945 followed by earning an associate’s degree at Murray State School of Agriculture in Tishomingo, Oklahoma in 1947. It was there she met Elmer A. Provence. They married on Oct 16, 1948 in Stillwater, Oklahoma. She earned her B.S. in Business from Oklahoma State University in 1956.
After graduation, she and Elmer moved to Lawton, Oklahoma where she worked as a bookkeeper from 1957 until 1963 when they adopted their daughter Sandra Kay. The family then moved to Altus, Oklahoma in 1965.
Christine returned to school at Southwestern State University in Weatherford, Oklahoma and graduated in 1971 with a second Bachelor’s Degree in Business Education. She became a business teacher at Altus High School in 1971 and taught general business classes and typing. Many of her students fondly remember their experiences with her and credit her with their success in business. She continued teaching at Altus High School through the 1984 school year.
In 1984, she and Elmer both retired and moved to their farm outside of Sterling, Oklahoma, where she attended the First Baptist Church and was a member of the Sterling Ladies Town & Country Club and the Arts & Craft Club. She was also a member of the Comanche County Retired Educators Association and the Oklahoma Retired Educators Association.
Elmer Provence passed away on Dec 17, 1997. She lived alone in the house she and Elmer built until March 2, 2002, when she married Henry J. Schulte. The Schulte’s lived together on his farm on the opposite site of the same highway that bordered the Provence farm until Henry passed away on April 8 of 2006.
She continued to be active in the social life of her community of Sterling until stricken with illness in 2016 when she moved to Austin, Texas in order to be closer to her daughter.
She is survived by her daughter, Sandra Kay Steele, her son-in-law, Anthony Steele and her two grandchildren, Alyssa and Gregory all of Austin, Texas.
She was preceded in death by her parents Pete and Ossie; her sisters: Janice Robinson and Betty Jane Matthews and her brother, Grover Herndon.
Source: Becker-Rabon Funeral Home
Graveside service for Christine (Herndon) Provence Schulte will be at Sunset Memorial Gardens.
Arrangements are under the direction of Becker-Rabon Funeral Home.
Due to the ongoing pandemic, the family requests that masks be worn at the service.
Christine (Herndon) Provence Schulte passed away in Round Rock, Texas on Thursday, November 5th, 2020, in the presence of her loving daughter, Sandra.
She was born on October 1, 1927 in Madill, Oklahoma to W. C. “Pete” and Ossie (Biles) Herndon. She graduated from Madill High School in 1945 followed by earning an associate’s degree at Murray State School of Agriculture in Tishomingo, Oklahoma in 1947. It was there she met Elmer A. Provence. They married on Oct 16, 1948 in Stillwater, Oklahoma. She earned her B.S. in Business from Oklahoma State University in 1956.
After graduation, she and Elmer moved to Lawton, Oklahoma where she worked as a bookkeeper from 1957 until 1963 when they adopted their daughter Sandra Kay. The family then moved to Altus, Oklahoma in 1965.
Christine returned to school at Southwestern State University in Weatherford, Oklahoma and graduated in 1971 with a second Bachelor’s Degree in Business Education. She became a business teacher at Altus High School in 1971 and taught general business classes and typing. Many of her students fondly remember their experiences with her and credit her with their success in business. She continued teaching at Altus High School through the 1984 school year.
In 1984, she and Elmer both retired and moved to their farm outside of Sterling, Oklahoma, where she attended the First Baptist Church and was a member of the Sterling Ladies Town & Country Club and the Arts & Craft Club. She was also a member of the Comanche County Retired Educators Association and the Oklahoma Retired Educators Association.
Elmer Provence passed away on Dec 17, 1997. She lived alone in the house she and Elmer built until March 2, 2002, when she married Henry J. Schulte. The Schulte’s lived together on his farm on the opposite site of the same highway that bordered the Provence farm until Henry passed away on April 8 of 2006.
She continued to be active in the social life of her community of Sterling until stricken with illness in 2016 when she moved to Austin, Texas in order to be closer to her daughter.
She is survived by her daughter, Sandra Kay Steele, her son-in-law, Anthony Steele and her two grandchildren, Alyssa and Gregory all of Austin, Texas.
She was preceded in death by her parents Pete and Ossie; her sisters: Janice Robinson and Betty Jane Matthews and her brother, Grover Herndon.
Source: Becker-Rabon Funeral Home
Arrangements are under the direction of Becker-Rabon Funeral Home.
Due to the ongoing pandemic, the family requests that masks be worn at the service.
Christine (Herndon) Provence Schulte passed away in Round Rock, Texas on Thursday, November 5th, 2020, in the presence of her loving daughter, Sandra.
She was born on October 1, 1927 in Madill, Oklahoma to W. C. “Pete” and Ossie (Biles) Herndon. She graduated from Madill High School in 1945 followed by earning an associate’s degree at Murray State School of Agriculture in Tishomingo, Oklahoma in 1947. It was there she met Elmer A. Provence. They married on Oct 16, 1948 in Stillwater, Oklahoma. She earned her B.S. in Business from Oklahoma State University in 1956.
After graduation, she and Elmer moved to Lawton, Oklahoma where she worked as a bookkeeper from 1957 until 1963 when they adopted their daughter Sandra Kay. The family then moved to Altus, Oklahoma in 1965.
Christine returned to school at Southwestern State University in Weatherford, Oklahoma and graduated in 1971 with a second Bachelor’s Degree in Business Education. She became a business teacher at Altus High School in 1971 and taught general business classes and typing. Many of her students fondly remember their experiences with her and credit her with their success in business. She continued teaching at Altus High School through the 1984 school year.
In 1984, she and Elmer both retired and moved to their farm outside of Sterling, Oklahoma, where she attended the First Baptist Church and was a member of the Sterling Ladies Town & Country Club and the Arts & Craft Club. She was also a member of the Comanche County Retired Educators Association and the Oklahoma Retired Educators Association.
Elmer Provence passed away on Dec 17, 1997. She lived alone in the house she and Elmer built until March 2, 2002, when she married Henry J. Schulte. The Schulte’s lived together on his farm on the opposite site of the same highway that bordered the Provence farm until Henry passed away on April 8 of 2006.
She continued to be active in the social life of her community of Sterling until stricken with illness in 2016 when she moved to Austin, Texas in order to be closer to her daughter.
She is survived by her daughter, Sandra Kay Steele, her son-in-law, Anthony Steele and her two grandchildren, Alyssa and Gregory all of Austin, Texas.
She was preceded in death by her parents Pete and Ossie; her sisters: Janice Robinson and Betty Jane Matthews and her brother, Grover Herndon.
Source: Becker-Rabon Funeral Home
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