Lura Stone

NORMAN — Lura Stone, 82, passed from this life Wednesday, July 31, 2013, in Norman. She was born on Aug. 25, 1930, in Commerce, Texas, to parents Vernon T. and Bess Hughes.

Lura was a graduate of East Texas State Teacher’s College. She began her professional career teaching special needs children in the Carrollton-Farmers Branch Independent School District in Texas. She then moved to Oklahoma and joined her husband Richard as owner/operators of the Jefferson County Abstract Company, and they were active in the Oklahoma Land Title Association and various local community organizations. After retirement, she moved to Norman where she joined many members of her family who reside there.

Lura was preceded in death by her husband, Richard D. Stone; and three children, daughter, Nell Renee Venner, and sons Brian G. Stone and Edward D. Stone.

She is survived by three sons, Nick H. Stone and wife Anna, Richard H. Chapman and wife Hayden and Gregory E. Chapman and wife Dallas; and grandchildren Sherry Goldsmith and family, Shannon Allen and family, Robyn Rogers and family, Carye Chapman, Nicole Hunzicker and family, Meredith Chapman and Messina Chapman; and 11 very special great-grandchildren.

Services will be 2 p.m. Tuesday in Havenbrook Funeral Home chapel, 3401 Havenbrook St., in Norman.

A graveside service will be 11 a.m. Wednesday at Waurika Cemetery in Waurika.

Arrangements for Lura and her family were placed in the care of the Vice family at Havenbrook Funeral Home in Norman.

Norman Transcript, Sunday, Aug. 4, 2013
Submitted by Edward Lynn Williams