Mrs. Sue House

The Memorial service for Mrs. Sue Stein House, 78, of Enid will be held at 2:00 P.M. Thursday March 10, 2016 in St. Mathew’s Episcopal Church, with the Rev. Dr. John Toles officiating. Service is under the direction of Brown-Cummings Funeral Home.
An open viewing will be held through the morning of Thursday, March 10, 2016 in Brown- Cummings Funeral Home.
The House family lost its beloved matriarch, Sue Stein House, who went gently after a long and fierce battle against medical odds, Sunday, March 6, 2016. She was 78. Not only a marvelous wife and mother, teacher, community volunteer, business woman, and loyal friend, Sue believed passionately that all people should prosper personally and spiritually regardless of their race, color, sex, politics, or religion, and she pursued that ideal with grit, grace, goodwill and good humor. She was truly one of God’s great people.

Sue Stein House was born in Houston, Texas in 1937. She was graduated from the University of Oklahoma in 1958, a member of the Chi Omega sorority, with a degree in Education. She married her husband, Robert E. House, that same year. She then taught English in several cities, as her husband served as a captain in the Marine Corps Reserve: Quantico and Stafford, Virginia, Twentynine Palms, CA. She taught as well in Toledo and Cincinnati, Ohio, where she gave birth to her two sons, Robert, Jr., 53, and Kyle, 50.

1967 found Sue and her family in Dallas, Texas, where she devoted herself to homemaking as well as community service. She served as Rush Chairwoman of Richardson, Texas for the Chi Omega sorority; she did volunteer work for the Wadley Research Institute and Blood Bank and the public broadcasting station, KERA; she helped organize benefits for the Church of Transfiguration and helped run its thrift shop, The Clothes Horse. As she would later, Sue enjoyed designing and crafting women’s accessories, lapboards and purses, in her spare time, giving these to friends and to charity.

The House family moved to Enid, Oklahoma in 1977, where Sue became a member of PEO, chapter AQ and, sometime later, a committed member of the Democratic Party. Women’s rights were her primary concern, but she donated time and energy to many other worthwhile causes as selflessly as she did to her many friends and her beloved family.

In 1986, Sue and her husband built a second residence in Lake City, Colorado where for several years she ran a women’s boutique, Nada, for which she designed and crafted accessories and clothes. Unsurprisingly, she was well-known and well-loved among Lake City natives the entire time she spent there.

In 2004, Sue and Bob moved to Bend, Oregon, spending seven years there before moving back to Enid permanently in 2011.

Sue Stein House was preceded in death by her mother, Lucile Stein; her sister, Patricia Stein Smith; and her father, Ira H. Stein. She leaves behind her husband of fifty-eight years, Bob House; her eldest son, Rob and his wife, Denise; her younger son, Kyle and his wife Carrie, and their children, her grandchildren, Trenton and Tessa House.

Preparations are underway for a Sue Stein House Memorial Education Scholarship at the University of Oklahoma with Brown-Cummings Funeral Home serving as custodian of the funds.

Dear Sue, dear mother, we love you so. Rest now eternally in peace.