Rose Mary (nee Bennett) Griggs (1934-2016)

OKLAHOMA CITY
Rose Mary (Bennett) Griggs, age 81, passed away suddenly on Friday, June 17, 2016, while on vacation in Santa Fe, NM. She was born December 3, 1934 in Oklahoma City, OK to William and Marie (Brandt) Bennett and grew up in West Oklahoma City. She was a 1953 graduate of Mustang High School. She has lived on the family farm on West Reno since 1959. Rosie was a typical farmer’s wife and worked beside her beloved husband Elisha at the family business, Griggs Equipment Co., still running the business after Elisha’s untimely death in 2013. She was a lifelong Catholic and was now a member of St. John’s Nepomuk congregation in Yukon. She was preceded in death by her parents, her husband Elisha and two brothers Freddie and Harold. Survivors include two sons Mike and wife Rena of Tuttle, Kenny and wife Holly and one daughter Lesa Calhoun and husband Jimmy of Yukon. Also by five grandchildren, two great grandchildren and was anxiously awaiting the birth of number three. Mass of Christian Burial will be held at 10am on Friday, June 24, 2016, at St. John Nepomuk Catholic Church in Yukon with interment following in Mustang Cemetery, Mustang, Oklahoma, under the direction of McNeil’s Funeral Service, Mustang, Oklahoma. Online condolences may be made at:
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