Funeral service for Effie Mourine Reed, age 87, of Faxon, Oklahoma will be at 10:30 a.m., Friday, February 14, 2020, at the First Baptist Church in Faxon with Rev. Robert Jacobson and Rev. Vivian Garza officiating. Burial will follow in the Faxon Cemetery under the direction of Jackson Funeral Home of Frederick, Oklahoma. Mrs. Reed passed away Tuesday morning, February 11, 2020, at the McMahon Tomlinson Nursing Center in Lawton, Oklahoma.
Effie Mourine Reed was born January 9, 1933 in Manitou, Oklahoma to Melvin Robert and Eva Christine (Newland) Plumbtree. She attended Chattanooga Public Schools, graduating from Chattanooga High School with the Class of 1950. On June 3, 1950, she married Thomas Jefferson Reed, Jr. in Lawton, Oklahoma. Effie was a homemaker. She was a member of the Good Cheer Home Demonstration Club for over fifty years. She was a member of the First Baptist Church of Faxon.
She is survived by her husband, Thomas Reed, Jr. of the home; her two daughters, Virginia Gail Lacy and her husband Jerry and Lesa Sue Williams and her husband Larry both of Faxon, Oklahoma; four grandchildren, Amanda Mourine Grimes and her husband Brent, April Gail Huitt and her husband Robert, Larry Reed Williams, and Ryan Thomas Williams and his wife Krystal; and six great-grandchildren, Gage Grimes, Lacy Grimes, Weston Huitt, Trace Huitt, Kord Williams and Harley Williams.
She was preceded in death by her parents, Melvin and Eva Plumbtree.
Visitation will be from 4:00 p.m. to 6:00 p.m. at the First Baptist Church in Faxon, Oklahoma on Thursday, February 13, 2020.