Woodruff-Stone History - Person Sheet
Woodruff-Stone History - Person Sheet
NameHelen Nadine STONE 
Birth9 Aug 1910, Oklahoma, Kay County, Ponca City
Death22 Dec 1993, Oklahoma, Cherokee County, Tahlequah
BurialOklahoma, Kay County, Tonkawa, IOOF Cemetery
OccupationTelephone Operator (1930 Census); Homemaker; Cook; Realtor
EducationTonkawa Hight School; Att Edmund OK Normal School
ReligionDisciples Of Christ
FlagsAncestry Site, HNS, Obituary
Christen20 Mar 1927, Oklahoma, Kay County, Tonkawa
FatherWilliam Thomas STONE (1868-1935)
MotherAnna Helen BACK (1885-1955)
Spouses
FatherBurrton Glenn WOODRUFF (1875-1953)
MotherEmma Belle BENTLEY (1875-1961)
Marriage17 Sep 1939, Kansas, Harper County, Anthony
Notes for Helen Nadine STONE
Born 8-9-10 on a farm near the 101 Ranch and Ponca City, Oklahoma. Attended grade school at the Birdsnest Rural School. Helen lived with her grandmother, Louise Back, during her 7th grade and went to school. The family moved to Tonkawa in 1923 and she finished her schooling there. Graduated from high school in 1928 and went to work for Southwestern Bell the same year. Received her Associate Degree from Tonkawa Junior College in 1931 and attended Central Oklahoma Teachers College in Edmond, Oklahoma. Passed her Real Estate examination to sell Real Estate in Kansas in 1959 and was active in this field until they retired and moved to Tahlequah, Oklahoma in 1970.1
Obituary notes for Helen Nadine STONE
Ponca City News,Friday, December 24, 1993, page 4B:
“Helen Nadine Woodruff, former Tonkawa resident, died Wednesday, Dec. 22, 1993, in the Doctor’s Hospital in Tulsa. She was 83.
“The funeral will be held at 2:30 p.m., Monday, in the Tonkawa First Christian Church, with Dr. Steve Sorenson, pastor of Tahlequah First Christian Church, officiating. Burial will follow in the Tonkawa IOOF Cemetery, under the direction of McCafferty-Bolick Funeral Home of Tonkawa. Friends may visit at the funeral home, beginning 2 p.m., Sunday.
“Mrs. Woodruff was born Aug. 9, 1910, near Ponca City, to William T. and Anna Helen (Back) Stone. She received her early education in Kay County, was employed by Southwestern Bell Telephone Co. and attended Northern Oklahoma College and Central Oklahoma Teacher’s College.
“On Sept. 17, 1939, she was married to Burrton G. Woodruff II, in Anthony, Kan. In 1970, Mrs. Woodruff retired as a real estate agent in Hutchinson, and moved to Tahlequah.
“Survivors include four sons, Burrton Glenn Woodruff III of Indianapolis, Ind., Layten Lamar Woodruff and Joe Woodruff, both of Tulsa,and Rodger Allen Woodruff of Denver. She was preceeded in death by her husband in August 1992.”
“Helen Nadine Woodruff, former Tonkawa resident, died Wednesday, Dec. 22, 1993, in the Doctor’s Hospital in Tulsa. She was 83.
“The funeral will be held at 2:30 p.m., Monday, in the Tonkawa First Christian Church, with Dr. Steve Sorenson, pastor of Tahlequah First Christian Church, officiating. Burial will follow in the Tonkawa IOOF Cemetery, under the direction of McCafferty-Bolick Funeral Home of Tonkawa. Friends may visit at the funeral home, beginning 2 p.m., Sunday.
“Mrs. Woodruff was born Aug. 9, 1910, near Ponca City, to William T. and Anna Helen (Back) Stone. She received her early education in Kay County, was employed by Southwestern Bell Telephone Co. and attended Northern Oklahoma College and Central Oklahoma Teacher’s College.
“On Sept. 17, 1939, she was married to Burrton G. Woodruff II, in Anthony, Kan. In 1970, Mrs. Woodruff retired as a real estate agent in Hutchinson, and moved to Tahlequah.
“Survivors include four sons, Burrton Glenn Woodruff III of Indianapolis, Ind., Layten Lamar Woodruff and Joe Woodruff, both of Tulsa,and Rodger Allen Woodruff of Denver. She was preceeded in death by her husband in August 1992.”
Burrton Woodruff III notes for Helen Nadine STONE
Mary Jane Welsh Pyle and HNS had a 5 year correspondence.2
Marriage Certificate notes for Helen Nadine STONE
Married in Christian Church Study. Witnesses J. W. Marshall; Mrs. Evelyn Hayden Marshall
Medical notes for Helen Nadine STONE
HNS died from complications of a stroke caused by high blood pressure.
Narrative notes for Helen Nadine STONE
Her son, Rodger Allyn, sent these stories to me in 2016.
Sometime in the mid to late 80's Mom told me that when she was an infant, her mother was driving a horse pulled carriage or wagon with Mom aboard. The story is that the horse reared causing the wagon to tip over or crash, throwing Mom from the wagon. She said she was told that a man, caught Mom as she was thrown. I think the man was Frank Stone, Anna's brother in law.
Unfortunately, unless Mom wrote the story down, there is no documentation.
Another story Mom had actually written down, In fact, she had me read it, was her first childhood memory.
When Mom was about four, the family was gathered for a wedding. Someone had made ice cream treats shaped like watermelon slices, which pink with probably chocolate
Chips for seeds. Unfortunately there were only treats enough for adults. Mom wrote she remembers throwing a tantrum....obviously it seemed traumatic, which is why she remembered it as her first memory.
Sometime in the mid to late 80's Mom told me that when she was an infant, her mother was driving a horse pulled carriage or wagon with Mom aboard. The story is that the horse reared causing the wagon to tip over or crash, throwing Mom from the wagon. She said she was told that a man, caught Mom as she was thrown. I think the man was Frank Stone, Anna's brother in law.
Unfortunately, unless Mom wrote the story down, there is no documentation.
Another story Mom had actually written down, In fact, she had me read it, was her first childhood memory.
When Mom was about four, the family was gathered for a wedding. Someone had made ice cream treats shaped like watermelon slices, which pink with probably chocolate
Chips for seeds. Unfortunately there were only treats enough for adults. Mom wrote she remembers throwing a tantrum....obviously it seemed traumatic, which is why she remembered it as her first memory.