Kay County OK Obit for: Maxine Elizabeth (Upshaw) Eckler 
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Submitted to the archives by:Claudia Thiry, workfarm@kskc.net
Date submitted: 3/09/2003 
Obit transcribed from the 
Newkirk Herald by submitter.
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November 4, 1999

Maxine Elizabeth Eckler

Maxine Elizabeth Eckler, Ponca City, died Saturday, October 30, 1999 at St. 
Joseph Regional Medical Center. She was 79. 

Funeral services were held at 11 am Tuesday, November 2 at St. Paul's United 
Methodist Church with Rev. Ed Coy Light presiding. Interment was in Resthaven 
Memorial Park Cemetery. 

Maxine Eckler was born September 14, 1920 at Carlyle, Kansas, the daughter 
of Harvey Upshaw and Elizabeth (Lindenstruth) Upshaw. 

She attended grade school at Carlyle, graduated from Iola High School, and 
attended Ponca City Business College. 

She was united in marriage to Henry Raymond "Buck" Eckler on June 11, 1937 
at Iola, Kansas where the couple made their first home. 

They also lived in Coffeyville, Kansas prior to moving to Newkirk in 1950 and 
to Ponca City in 1965. 

Mrs. Eckler was employed by the Oklahoma State Department of Human Services 
for 24 years and was manager at the Ponca City Senior Citizen Center for 10 
years. 

She was a member of St. Paul's United Methodist Church, Senior Citizen Bowling 
League and the Sundowners Bowling League. 

Her enjoyments were arts, crafts, sewing, bowling, bingo and golf, and she 
especially enjoyed her grandchildren and great grandchildren.

She is survived by two sons, Jerry Don Eckler, Germantown, Tennessee and Dale 
Gene Eckler, Lebanon, Tennessee; three sisters, Mabel Peters, Iola, Kansas, 
Virginia Lesley, Sun City, Arizona and Ruby Leonard, Las Vegas, Nevada; three 
brothers, Charles Upshaw, Albuquerque, New Mexico, Ralph Upshaw, St. Joseph, 
Missouri and Harvey Upshaw, Memphis, Tennessee; eleven grandchildren, nine 
great grandchildren and several nieces and nephews. 

She was preceded in death by her parents, husband, one son, Ronald Dean 
Upshaw, four brothers and two sisters. 

Memorial contributions may be made to St. Paul's United Methodist Church, 
Building Fund, 1904 N. Pecan, Ponca City, OK 74604.
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