FREY, Margaret B. Frey

        Margaret Boone Frey, 93, long-time Chickasha farm wife and widow, family matriarch and church volunteer, died Sunday at her home at 1825 Grand Ave. Graveside services will be held Thursday at 1:30 pm at Rose Hill Cemetery under the direction of Holy Name Catholic Church and Sevier Funeral Home. Rev. Elmer Schwarz will officiate.
        Mrs. Frey lived across the street from her beloved University of Science and Arts of Oklahoma, to which she first traveled by train in 1929 when it was Oklahoma College for women. She married on the day she graduated, later worked in the OCW administration office and was a supporting alumni for over 70 years. Interment will be in the northeast Catholic section alongside her husband, Raymond, a well-known farmer-rancher and civic leader who died in 1960.
        Margaret was born April 7, 1912, in one of the staff houses at the Osage Indian Agency in Pawhuska where both her parents worked. She was the oldest of three children of Malinda Boone House of Oneida, Wisconsin, and Walker Lane Boone, Harrisonville, Missouri, a distant nephew of frontier explorer Daniel Boone. Margaret was preceded in death by both parents and a younger brother. She was listed on the membership roles of the Oneida Indian Tribe of Wisconsin. Her mother was a full-blood Oneida and her father was a member of the Wyandotte Tribe of Oklahoma. While a student at OCW she held offices in several organizations, student government and was chosen the first Te Ata Indian Princess.
        She earned a degree in business and married Raymond Joseph Frey on graduation day, June 1, 1933. They lived on and operated four different farms within two miles west of town for 27 years until her husbands death in 1960. She then moved to her historic house on Grand Ave. just east of the university tennis courts and worked as a proof reader for The Chickasha Daily Express. Later Margaret worked many years in the Deans Office at OCW and Oklahoma College of Liberal Arts, and also First National Bank and Trust Company where she finally retired in 1982.
        Margaret held a life membership in the USAO Alumni and Former Student Association. She was a member of the American Association of University Women, Catholic Daughters of America, the Catholic Womens Activities and the National Council of Catholic Women. She was a member of the Archdiocesan (State) Board for eight years. In 1957 she was awarded the Pro Ecclesis at Pontifice Medal by Pope Pius XII. For more than 50 years since 1951 she worked as a volunteer sacristan at Holy Name Church when women of the parish assumed the altar duties from the Franciscan Sisters. Margaret was also active in Farm Bureau, Grady County Historican Society, the Southern Plains Indian Museum in Anadarko, and was a charter member with her husband of the National Cowboy Hall of Fame in Oklahoma City.
        She was preceded in death by a daughter, Oneita Beth Peters, a biologist, in 1974. She is survived by four children: Dr. Joe Boone Frey and his wife, Karen, of San Antonio, TX.; Ramona Jean Monroe, RN, of Portland, OR.; Phillip Lee Frey and his wife, Kay, of Oklahoma City; and Mary Frey Fowler of Shawnee. She is also survived by 13 grandchildren, 16 great-grandchildren, a sister, Dorothy Botts of Broken Arrow, a sister-in-law, Pauline Frey of Chickasha, and numerous nieces and nephews throughout the country. In lieu of flowers, the family requests that you donate to your favorite charity or the Holy Name Catholic Church.