Alma Lorene Payne, 98, died February 9, 2015 in Yukon, OK. She was born June 12, 1916 in Carnegie, OK to Charles and LuLu (Phipps) Lunsford. She was a retired elementary school teacher. She enjoyed reading, quilting, sewing, cross-stitch and traveling. She married Frank E. Payne and they enjoyed 76 years together before his death on January 9, 2014. She was preceded in death by a daughter, Judith Muse, a granddaughter, Cynda Kindle, a son-in-law, Paul Whitaker, 2 brothers, Lloyd and Billy, and a sister, Virginia Robbins. Survivors include 3 daughters, Ellen Elswick and husband Wayne of Dayton, OH, Carolyn Henderson and husband Conley of Hot Springs Village, AR and Anita Lance and husband Gary of Bethany, OK; 5 grandchildren and 12 great-grandchildren. Viewing will be Friday, 9am-9pm, with family present from 6-8pm at Mercer-Adams. Services will be Saturday, February 14, 2:00pm at Bethany First Church of the Nazarene with interment following in Bethany Cemetery. Memorials may be made to the Judy Muse Accounting Scholarship Fund at Southern Nazarene University.
Funeral Service
Saturday, February 14, 2015
02:00 PM Bethany First Church of the Nazarene
6789 N.W. 39th Expressway
Bethany, OK 73008