Guadalupe Kephart

The Memorial services celebrating and honoring the life of Guadalupe “Lupe” Kephart, 84, of Carmen, Oklahoma, will be held Saturday, February 26, 2022, at 11:00 a.m. through an online format.  Complete cremation care and services are under the direction of Brown-Cummings Funeral Home.

Lupe was born August 05, 1937, to Inez Ornelas and Juanita Perez in Romita, Guanajuato, Mexico, and fell asleep in death with her family surrounded by her side on February 15, 2022 in Enid, Oklahoma.

She moved to the United States as a teenager with her family.  The family lived in Woodward where she graduated from Woodward High School in 1959.   After high school, Lupe moved to Waynoka and worked as a professional waitress at Miller’s Café for many years.  She married Kenneth C. Kephart on April 29, 1967.  From this union came two children.  After they retired, the couple lived in Carmen, Oklahoma.

Lupe was truly a humble, meek, generous, and hardworking lady.  She loved and cared deeply for her family and was the family matriarch.  Lupe was her grandchildren’s number one fan and loved watching them participate and excel in 4H, FFA, and all the sport or school activities in which they were involved. She would always cheer them on with a loving competitive fighting heart.  She was a huge fan of the Dallas Cowboys, the Oklahoma Sooners and the New York Yankees.  Lupe would always hug her grandchildren and tell them that she loved them before they left her home and would remind them to watch their “P’s and Q’s”.  Then she would stay on the porch until they drove out of sight.  Lupe was a master cook of Authentic Mexican foods and would prepare a Mexican dinner annually for her grandson’s football team. She ran a small restaurant in Cherokee called, South of the Border and was the inspiration for her son and wife to open Tres Hermanas Mexican Restaurant in Carmen.  Lupe also had an amazing singing voice.  Her favorite was singing Mexican Ranchera songs from her homeland of Mexico.  Her spirituality was an important part of her life.  She was one of Jehovah’s Witnesses and loved teaching her family and speaking to others about her great God Jehovah.

She is survived by one daughter, Xantippe M. Bolar and husband Lynn of Freedom, Oklahoma, and their children Talem Garcia, Luke Bolar and Lance Bolar, her great grandsons Jaime and Yandel Garcia, one son, Kenneth C. Kephart Jr. and wife Therese of Carmen, Oklahoma, and their children Siena, Sarita, and Shayla, two brothers Steve Mancillas and wife Carol of Moore, Oklahoma, Pablo Perez and wife Susan Eddings Perez of Sperry, Oklahoma, one sister Cathy Whiteside and husband Gary of Enid, Oklahoma, ten nephews and nieces, eleven great nephews and nieces, and an extended family that loved her very much.

Condolences and special memories may be shared with the family online at www.Brown-Cummings.com