Jean C. Lacy

Jean Corley Lacy, a longtime resident of Lindsay, Oklahoma died at her home July 20, 2006. Mrs. Lacy was born in Stratford, October 31, 1928, to Floyd Jackson "Jack" Corley and Hazel Smallwood Corley. One of her favorite memories was of being the shoeshine girl in daddy?s barber shop. In her teens she was the pianist for the First Baptist Church of Stratford, Oklahoma. She graduated in the class of 1946 from Stratford High School and briefly attended Oklahoma Baptist University in Shawnee. In 1947 she accompanied her first husband, Dean Selby to Washington, D.C. where she worked as a document writer-typist for the Navel Ordinance Laboratory. After returning to Shawnee, she worked many years for the Agricultural Stabilization and Conservation Service. Mrs. Lacy was a member of the local National Association of Retired Federal Employees, the AARP, Compassionate Friends, and a faithful supporter of the Stratford High School Alumni Association. She wrote many letters over the years urging former students to attend the annual SHS alumni banquet. This year she and five of her classmates celebrated their 60th reunion on June 3, 2006. Mrs. Lacy enjoyed writing stories of her girlhood years, several of which have been published in the Stratford Star. She was preceded in death by her parents, her brother, Bruce Corley, her daughter, Julie Jean Selby Buys, her son, Edward Lee Selby and her beloved husband of 25 years, Lester C. Lacy. She is survived by her son, Jack Selby and daughter-in-law Vickey of Van Buren, Arkansas, her daughter, Corley Clark Steen and son-in-law, James of Norman, her son-in-law, Jeff Buys of Chandler, Oklahoma, her sisters, Lela Corley Talbott of Phoenix, Arizona, Jackie Corley Reynolds, and brother-in-law, Dick of Colorado Springs, Colorado, Beverly Corley Stitzel and brother-in-law Jack of Cambridge, England, her sister-in-law, Judy Corley Rice of Mustang, Oklahoma, and her step-children, Malcolm and Jean Lacy, Claude Lacy, and Christine Lacy Bishop and her husband Carl. She also leaves behind three granddaughters, Ammie Selby, Autumn Buys Williams and husband Brian, and Heather Selby Houston and husband, Bill, her grandson, Chad Selby, all were very special to her. She will be missed by her much loved great-granddaughters, Skylar Mullins, Kelsey and Payton Williams, and her new great grandson, Seth William Houston, and many nieces and nephews. She will be greatly missed by her family and friends. Services will be held Thursday, July 27, 2006 at the B. G. Boydston Funeral Home in Lindsay, Oklahoma at 10:00 a.m. Interment will be at the Green Hill Cemetery. Funeral arrangements are under the direction of B. G. Boydston Funeral Home. Condolences may be sent to the family online at www.boydstonfuneralhome.com. Those wishing to do so may make a contribution to the Stratford High School Alumni Association Scholarship Fund.