Everett Ellis Ray Stumbaugh

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Everett Ellis Ray Stumbaugh

Thu, 04/09/2020 - 13:30
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Everett Ellis Ray Stumbaugh passed away on April 6, 2020 in Ponca City. He was born in Fairfax, Oklahoma on January 22, 1931 to Edna and Ollie Stumbaugh, and he attended the Fairfax Public Schools, graduating from high school in 1949. He attended Northern Oklahoma Junior College before joining the Army Reserve and he served in Korea with the B Battery 145 AAA 45th Infantry Division. Upon his return from the service, he met and married Shirley Hancock and soon thereafter became a student at Oklahoma Agricultural and Mechanical College where he received a Bachelor of Arts in Education Degree. He later also received a Master’s Degree in History and a Master’s Degree in Guidance and Counseling from OSU. In 1956, his young family moved to Ponca City where he became a social studies teacher at Ponca City High School, and he was also a guidance counselor for many years, retiring in 1990.

Everett was honored by Harvard University in 1965 by being recognized as one of Harvard’s four Outstanding Secondary Teachers of the Year after one of his former students who then attended the university wrote an essay about how Mr. Stumbaugh had inspired and influenced his life. Everett was a devoted family man and he moonlighted for a number of years by teaching GED classes two nights per week to put his daughters LuCinda and Gayla through college.

Attending Oklahoma State University sporting events was an enduring passion for Everett. For more than 60 years, he held season tickets to OSU football games and for many years he had season tickets to basketball games at Iba Arena.

Throughout his life Everett was an avid hunter which he especially enjoyed with his son-in-law, Tracy Daniel. He relished time spent with buddies at hunting camp, hearing them tell tall tales and spout sheer nonsense. He loved to travel and took memorable trips to Germany, Hawaii, Washington state, Northern California and to several OSU bowl and out-of-town football games with good friends and family. He also enjoyed his longstanding Monday breakfast date with Jerry and Bonnie Runyon.

Everett had a lifelong love of learning and after he retired, he channeled this interest into the study of genealogy, spending countless hours at his computer digging up ancestors. He delighted in donning his t-shirt that said “Raising the Dead and Annoying the Living.”

He is survived by his beloved wife of 67 years, Shirley; daughter LuCinda and husband Tracy Daniel of Ponca City; daughter Gayla and husband Mike Bush of Carrollton, Texas; grandson Kelsey Bush and wife Amy McCarthy of Dallas, Texas; granddaughter Jennifer and husband Jason Saldana of Sachse, Texas; grandson Collin Daniel and girlfriend Lily Cardenas of Durango, Colorado; and great-granddaughters Camryn June and Cara Ellis Saldana. He was preceded in death by his parents and his sister, Alice Hood.

The family wishes to express thanks to the ICU staff at Ponca City Hospital with special appreciation for the care given by his ICU nurse, Craig Backus, and to Dr. John Holden.

A memorial service will be scheduled at a later date. In lieu of flowers, the family has asked that memorial donations be made to the Oklahoma State Alumni Association or to the American Lung Association.

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