Submitted by
Vicki Ebert

Velma Jean Stambaugh

SEILING — Velma Jean Stambaugh, longtime resident of Ponca City, died Sunday morning, March 25, 2001, at the Fairview Fellowship Home in Fairview. She was 76.
A graveside service will be held at 1:30 p.m. Tuesday, March 27, at the Hope Cemetery southeast of Chester with Ewel Vaughan, pastor of the Richmond Church, officiating. Arrangements are under the direction of Redinger Funeral Home in Seiling.
Velma Jean Stambaugh was born Aug. 31, 1924, in Jerome, Ariz., the daughter of Charles Marrs and Stella Barns Marrs-Rohla. She moved to Utah with her parents and later to Alberta, Canada. At the age of eight, she moved to Waynoka, where she attended Mountain View School in Major County. She graduated from Waynoka.
She married James Oral Stambaugh on Sept. 6, 1941, in Cordell. They lived in Wichita, Kan., where Velma was employed at Boeing Aircraft a short time. In 1951, they moved to Ponca City, where she made her home until March 9, 2001, when she moved to the Fairview Fellowship Home. She was a housewife, and they raised a foster daughter even though they had no children of their own. She enjoyed fishing, cooking, reading and visiting with family and friends.
Survivors include two brothers, George Rohla of Oklahoma City and Dick Rohla of Chester; four grandchildren; and a number of other relatives. She was preceded in death by her parents, her stepfather, one sister, three half-brothers, and her foster daughter, Peggy Hoagland.