Brenda (Tate) Stotts

(Ruby) Brenda (Tate) Stotts (Ruby) Brenda (Tate) Stotts, 74, passed from this life Friday, morning, September 26, 2014 at St. John’s Hospital, Tulsa, after a brief illness. Funeral services will be at 2:00 P.M. on Tuesday, September 30, 2014 at the First Church of the Nazarene, Bartlesville with Pastor Russell Hosey officiating. Interment will be at Ramona Cemetery following the service under the direction of the Stumpff Funeral Home & Crematory. Born on November 15, 1939 to Paul W. and Theobell (Tucker) Tate in Oglesby, Brenda received her education in Bartlesville. played violin in the school orchestra, and graduated from College High School in 1957. In 1959, she attained an associate degree from Northeastern Oklahoma A&M College, Miami, where she was active in Norse Stars and worked in the school library. She was then employed in the research and development library of Phillips Petroleum Company. During that time, she met J.D. Stotts, whom she married on June 29, 1963, and they made their home in Bartlesville. She quit working a few years later to raise their children and to volunteer in church, school and community activities, including Bellringer School. Brenda returned to work in her husband’s accounting firm, John D. Stotts and Company, serving as office manager. Brenda was active in the First Church of the Nazarene, where she served on various committees and sang in the choir. She was interested in culinary arts and fine arts, especially music and sewing, and loved designing costumes for children’s musical drama presentations at her church. Brenda researched, designed and sewed most of the costumes used in Bartlesville First Nazarene’s annual production of “The Promise of Hope.” She also sewed costumes for several Bartlesville High School drama department productions, and delighted in teaching some students the finer points of sewing. She was a long time member and leader in Community Bible Study. Brenda enjoyed traveling with her husband, family and friends, and spent hours scrapbooking about their adventures and about her grandchildren. Brenda is survived by her husband of 51 years, J.D., of Bartlesville, a son, Greg Stotts, of Longmont, Colorado, and his son, Benjamin Stotts, of Baldon, England; a daughter, Dana Stotts Chance and her children, Payton Chance, Paige Chance, and Braden Chance, of Tulsa; her mother, Theobell Tate, and sister, Elaine Tate Gaut and husband Bob of Bartlesville; and her sister-in-law, Nadine Bloom of Broken Arrow; and several nieces, nephews, and cousins. She was preceded in death by her father, Paul W. Tate, and her brother, Ronald P. Tate, and a great-nephew, Paul Tate. Donations may be made to the First Church of the Nazarene, 3650 S.E. Adams Blvd., Bartlesville, Okla., 74006 or to Willis-Embok Disease (RLS) Foundation, 1530 Greenview Drive S.W, Suite 210, Rochester, MN 55902 PDF Printable Version

Brenda (Tate) Stotts

November 15, 1939 - September 26, 2014