BOOTHE, Margaret E. Boothe

        Margaret Emmeline Boothe Margaret Emmeline Boothe, 96, of Stillwater, died Wednesday, Oct. 19, 2005, in Stillwater. Services will be in First Presbyterian Church Saturday at 10:30 a.m. Dr. B. Gordon Edwards will officiate. Interment will follow in Sunset Memorial Gardens, Stillwater. Strode Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements. Family will greet friends from 7 until 8:30 tonight in the funeral home.
        She was born in Payne County Sept. 4, 1909, to Martin Edgar Williams and Mary Elizabeth (Curtis) Williams. She married Alfred Wayne Boothe July 18, 1932, in Stillwater. He died March 16, 1996. She attended Yale schools and graduated from Yale High School. She attended Oklahoma College of Women, in Edmond, and was awarded a life certificate. She taught at Yale schools for two years. She earned a BS and MS from Oklahoma State University.
        She lived in Stillwater from 1934 until 1937. She moved to Texas and then to Albuquerque, N.M., and returned to Stillwater in 1943. She taught in Stillwater schools after graduating from OSU. She was a life member of Eastern Star, coached 4-H Good Cheer for 14 years and was a Good Cheer Home Demonstrator. She was a member of Kappa Kappa Iota and Delta Kappa Gamma teacher organizations, where she served in many capacities. She was a longtime member of First Presbyterian Church, where she taught Sunday school, was a member of the Womens Club and worked in the Presbytery, as a moderator.
        Preceding her in death were her parents, husband and four brothers, George, Harry, Bill and C. Hiram. She is survived by one son, James E. Boothe of Stillwater; two daughters, Nancy Blankinship and her husband, T.J., of Waynoka and Linda Baker and her husband, Alvin, of Wagoner; six grandchildren, Thomas Wayne Blankinship and his wife, Janice, of Freemont, Neb., Barbara Zepp and her husband, Jim, of Edmond, Mark Blankinship and his wife, Sandy, of Stillwater, Kelly Turley and her husband, Jerry, of Wagoner, Mel Baker and his wife, Rhonda, of Coweta and Nanette Pena, of Coweta and 13 great-grandchildren. Memorials may be made to Judith Karman Hospice, P.O. Box 818, Stillwater, OK 74076.