Stephen Everett Reid 75, husband, brother, father, grandfather, Melchizedek Priesthood holder has reunited with his Father in Heaven as well as beloved family members on Friday, January 20, 2023. Leaving those of us behind who loved him to cherish his memory. Funeral services will be held at 10:30 am on Wednesday, January 25, 2023 in the Billings Funeral Home Chapel. Burial will follow in the Elmwood Cemetery.

Born in Woodward, the second of three sons to Dale Everett Reid and Bonnie Lee (Hicks) Reid, on January 13, 1948. Steve grew up in northwest Oklahoma, attending grade school in several communities including Horace Mann Elementary in Woodward. During junior high he developed an interest in coin collecting that lasted all his life. He would walk across Woodward to attend meetings with the old guys who shared the coin collecting passion. Steves’s only living Grandmother Mrs. Eula Reid saw to it he had access to a piano and the chance to take lessons which he did. With practice he excelled, those lessons benefitted him throughout life. He took part in many recitals and went on to give piano lessons of his own in college. Steve graduated Woodward High School in 1966, hand in hand with his sweetheart and wife Jean Ann (Weidner) Reid, with their baby daughter in hand, they moved to Alva where Steve worked a full-time job at Safeway, played piano at Ken Miles studio and baled hay all to pay the bills. He graduated college in 1970 with a degree in Political Science. A second baby girl joined them that year and the family was complete. Though this union would not last, the years spent together made memories lasting a lifetime.

His Safeway career advanced through the 70s and 80s where he met and married Teresa (Hawthorn) Reid Oct 6,1984 in Ponca City. Steve stayed with Safeway retiring in 1989 when he moved to the Phoenix, Arizona area with wife Teresa opening several business ventures all centering around fresh produce and antiques. An odd combination but he made it work, as he was a people person with the gift of gab. He made many good friends during his years in Arizona. In those years grandchildren brought him and Teresa back across country to Oklahoma many times bringing fresh strawberries and antiques by the trailer full.

Steve and Teresa returned to the Woodward area in 2017 to be closer to family, doing so reconnected with people from his past. An animal lover through all his years his most recent cat friends Frank, Poe & Cheeto miss him even now. A lifelong nature lover he took interest in simple things like the beauty of a full moon, wild turkeys in the neighborhood, feeding the deer in his back yard, even a bloomed dandelion.

Those of us who knew him best will remember his humor, his so generous nature, his love of God and Country. His love for his wife of 38 years Teresa and daughters LeeRona Marie and wife Annette Borurque of Edmonton Alberta Canada. Michelle Noeel Reid Taylor, husband Wayne, grandsons Colton Wayne Reid Taylor and Harmon Jack Taylor, granddaughter Eliza Grace Taylor. One great grandson Aiden Charles Taylor. Others left to remember him include 1 brother Stan L. Reid and wife Rhonda, 5 nieces plus 1 nephew. All near and dear to his heart. Happy Trails Cowboy!!

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