Zelma Grace Turnipseed at age 86, passed away after a lengthy illness on June 15, 2025 and was born on Sept. 5, 1938 in Oklahoma.
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She graduated from Howe High School in the class of 1956.
Surviving family members are her sister, Mary Sue Cunningham, of Kennebunk, Maine; her daughter Marcie Adkisson and husband Darrell of Anadarko; granddaughter Krystal Pinnick and husband James along with three great grandchildren Logan, Max, and Owen all of Queen Creek, Arizona.
She was preceded in death by her parents Oscar Story and Chloie Driver; her husband, Thomas Turnipseed, of Anadarko, and her sister, Betty Jo Ingle Doyle, of Tulsa.
A graveside service was held Thursday at the Oakland Cemetery in Poteau, under the direction of Becker-Rabon Funeral Home of Lawton.