Mary A. Eastburn

On Friday, February 7, 2020, our beloved mother, Mary A. Eastburn passed away. She was 83. Mary was born on October 15, 1936 to Samuel and Ruby (Newman) Houchin in Alice, TX and grew up and graduated from Ralls High School in Ralls, TX. She lived in Grove the last 50 years. When she was 18, she started her career performing clerical duties involving government contracts in Glendale, California. She worked in personnel processing personnel security questionnaires for security clearances at the Atomic Energy Commission in Nevada. She obtained and analyzed financial information and wrote credit reports for businesses when she worked for Dun & Bradstreet until 1970. She married James Eastburn in 1970 and became a homemaker. In 1975, Jim passed away. Mary started working at the Grove Tag Office doing bookkeeping, secretarial and clerical duties, including being a notary. In 1981 Mary decided to go to college to study Accounting full-time at Northeastern State University, Tahlequa, OK while working part-time at the tag office and even was employed in the work-study program. She had many academic honors in her studies. She was a member of Alpha Chi Honor Society and Rho Theta Sigma Honor Society in 1984. She earned the honor of Outstanding Accounting Student and Outstanding Business Student in 1983. She served several years as the president of the Delaware County Republican Women’s Club. Mary worked as the bookkeeper/accountant at Thompson & Assoc Real Estate until retiring. We will list an extensive list of family because this was Mary’s universe. She greatly anticipated the latest news or story about every one of them. Every new baby, every graduation, every wedding, every travel experience, every anecdote about babies playing in the mud or a child’s day. She was a good listener. In her later years Facebook became her friend because she could more easily stay in touch with all of us as well as see and smile over every picture posted. And there were a lot of them. She was a kind, caring, giving, selfless, tenacious, and loving person. Mary was preceded in death by her husband, parents, sister, Lois Mae and brothers, Wayland Dean, Sam Doak and Albert Danley. She is survived by one brother, James William Houchin and his wife Sally of Petersburg, TX: son, Ronald Keith DeCarolis of Grove, son, Howard Payne and his wife Linda of Florida, stepson, Danny Eastburn & wife, LaVonne of New Port Richie, FL, stepson, David Eastburn & wife, Patti of Plano, TX, stepdaughter, Paula Lundgaard & husband, Kris of Bratislava, Slovakia, granddaughter, Tabitha Louk & husband Jess (8 great grandchildren; Greta, Wolfgang, Oskar, Augustine, Gabriel, Lucy, Clara, Leo) of Lutz, FL, granddaughter, Shannon Sumner & husband Brandon (2 great granddaughters; Lola and Pepper) of Odessa, FL, granddaughter, Julia Eastburn of Lewisville, TX, granddaughter, Robin Eastburn (2 great grandchildren; Travis and Hydee) of Sherman, TX, grandson, Kevin Eastburn of Plano, TX, grandson, Nicholas Lundgaard and his wife, Somaria (great grandson; Henrik) of Houston, TX, granddaughter, Karen Greer and her husband, Daniel (5 great grandchildren; Griffin, Julian, Willa, Boone and one on the way)of Waco, TX, grandson, Kristian Lundgaard and his wife, Ivica, of Carmel, IN, grandson, Ethan Lundgaard and his wife, Katie (great grandson; on the way) of Houston, TX, niece, Karen Barnes and her husband Walt, of Edmond, OK (great nephew and niece; Todd Thomas and Kortni Thomas Howerton, both of Oklahoma City, OK) nephew Eddy Houchin and his wife Karen, of Crosby County, TX (great nephews; Erin and his wife, Keri of Benbrook, TX, Daniel and his wife Amanda, of Lubbock, TX) niece, Tena Houchin of Breckenridge, TX (great niece and nephew; Angela Bruhjell and her husband Steve of Virginia Beach, VA and Stephen Brunson and his wife Amy of Columbus, OH) nephew, Chris Houchin and his wife Becky of Breckenridge, TX (great nephews; Tyler and his wife Katy of Odessa, TX and Trent and his wife Amber of Sudan, TX), nephew, Donald Ray Houchin and his wife Dena of Houston, TX, She was so kind, loving and supportive in all of her roles as daughter, sister, wife, mother, aunt, friend and employee. We all miss her very much. A memorial service will take place Friday, February 14, at 2:00 pm at 3 Rivers Church, 5421 US-59N, Grove, OK 74344.

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Mary A. Eastburn

October 15, 1936 - February 7, 2020