Mary Ellen Turner

The Graveside services celebrating and honoring the life of Mary Ellen (Westfahl) Turner will be held at 3:00 P.M. Sunday, March 24, 2019 in the Ames Cemetery with Deacon Tony Crispo officiating. She was a faithful member of St. Gregory Catholic Church. Services are under the direction of Brown-Cummings Funeral Home.

She was born March 14, 1922, near Isabella, Oklahoma, to William Paul and Margaret Ann (Mildfelt) Westfahl and died at age ninety-seven years and six days at Greenbrier Nursing Home in Enid.

She grew up on a farm near Okeene, Oklahoma. She married James Lee Turner on August 19, 1940, and they lived on a farm at Ames until retirement to Enid in 1980. They were married for fifty years.

Mary Ellen was a wonderful mother, homemaker, seamstress, quilter, and cook. She loved cooking large meals for her family during the holidays, as well as large meals for harvest hands during the harvest season. At Ames she always had a large meal cooked when her children arrived home from a long day at school.

She was preceded in death by her parents, her husband Lee, sisters Norene and Frances Betty, and brothers Kenneth and Clarence.

She is survived by her four children, Margaret Barton, and husband Johnny, of Alva, OK, Mary Maehr of Jenks, OK, Karyl Haines, and husband Jack, of Waukomis, OK, Jim Turner, and wife Debbie, of Enid, two sisters, Doris Dean, of Oklahoma City, OK, and Billie Marcoux, of Enid, OK.

She is also survived by ten grandchildren, nine great grandchildren, and one great-great grandchild, as well as numerous nieces and nephews.

In lieu of flowers, memorials may be made in her name to the Ames Cemetery or Our Daily Bread of Enid with Brown-Cummings Funeral Home serving as custodian of the funds.

Condolences to the family may be made online at WWW.Brown-Cummings.com