Submitted by
Karen Stewart

Virginia Lee Waugh Mair

Virginia Lee Waugh Mair, longtime Ponca City resident, died Friday evening, May 12, 2006, in Edmond. She was 76.
The funeral will be held at 10 a.m. Thursday, May 18, in the chapel of First Baptist Church with the Rev. Dr. Hance Dilbeck, pastor of Quail Springs Baptist Church of Edmond, presiding. Interment will be in the IOOF Cemetery under the direction of Grace Memorial Chapel.
Virginia was born Sept. 3, 1929, in Elkhart, Kan., the daughter of John Lester and Zella Etta Clymer Waugh. Following her mother's death in 1935, she lived with her aunt Lottie Clymer. She was raised in Ponca City and attended Ponca City schools, graduating from Po-Hi in 1948. She went on to attend Oklahoma Baptist University before graduating from Central State University in Edmond.
Virginia and Glen Mair were married on Aug. 1, 1953, in Essex, England.
She taught school in Wichita, Kan., before deciding to stay at home with her sons. She returned to teaching in 1978 at Jefferson Elementary and was one of the first teachers at Union Elementary before retiring in 1996.
She grew up in the First Baptist Church and was a charter member of the Northeast Baptist Church. She was also a member and past regent of the Ponca City Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution, the Magna Carta Dames, Kay County Retired Teachers Association and the Silvertones Choir of the First Baptist Church.
She is survived by two sons, David Mair and his wife Kim of Naperville, Ill., and Gordon Mair and his wife Shannon of Edmond; three granddaughters, Kristen, Sarah and Rebekah Mair; and one grandson, Christopher Mair, two step grandchildren, Dane and Trace O'Brien; two stepsisters, Barbara Smith of Ponca City and Kay Elmer of Winter Park, Fla.; one stepbrother, Dick Smith, of San Diego, Calif.; one aunt, Ima Lee Clymer of Pawhuska; and several cousins.
She was preceded in death by her parents; one brother, Eugene Waugh; three aunts; one uncle; and several cousins.
Casket bearers will be George Ivie, Gale Prather, Calvin Wolf, Dale Zehr, Tom Skaggs, and Bill Justice. Honorary bearers will be members of the Silvertone Choir.
The family will receive friends at the funeral home from 6 to 8 p.m. Wednesday, May 17.
Memorial contributions may be made to the OBU Scholarship Fund at First Baptist Church, 218 South Sixth Street, Ponca City, Okla. 74601.