Lola Mae Cranor

Mrs. Lola Mae (Terhune) Cranor Mrs. Lola Mae (Terhune) Cranor, 90, of Bartlesville, died at 9:12 A.M. on Friday, July 3, 2015 at her home following an illness of several weeks. Funeral services for Mrs. Cranor will be held at 2 P.M. on Tuesday in the Stumpff Funeral Home Chapel with Rev. Tom Cox officiating. Interment will be in the Memorial Park Cemetery directed by the Stumpff Funeral Home & Crematory. Because of her love of animals it is her wish that in lieu of flowers, memorial donations be made to the Washington County SPCA, 16620 State Highway 123, Bartlesville, Oklahoma, 74006 or to any Veterans organizations such as “Honor Flights” for World War II Veterans. Mrs. Cranor was born at Sperry, Oklahoma the last of eight children born to Isaac Henry Terhune and Myra Belle (Helton) Terhune. Later the family moved to a small farm near Sand Springs, Oklahoma where she attended Fisher School through the fourth grade. In 1935 the family moved Southeast of Bartlesville where she attended Truskett School, then the next four years she rode a school bus to Ramona, graduating in May 1942. She married Ben Hartley Cranor on June 20, 1942 and he preceded her in death on June 19, 1985 after 42 years of marriage. She was employed with Phillips Petroleum Company for five years as a telephone operator during World War II. After the birth of her two sons she was a stay at home wife and mom, always helping with their school activities, Cub Scouting, 4-H Club, go karting or fixing their favorite breakfast of orange toast or baking chocolate chip cookies. The four began operating Mercy Ambulance from 1960 to 1972 where she became the bookkeeper. Later, she and her twin sister Lois (Doud) compiled “Family Record Books” for their sons. She is a member of the First Baptist Church in Bartlesville. former member of Ramona Chapter 370 Order of Eastern Star and current member of Chapter 473 of Oologah. She enjoyed going to the Tuesday House with her neighbor and reading and working “Find the Word” books. Mrs. Cranor is survived by her sons, Dr. Benny D. Cranor, PhD, and wife Paula of Bartlesville and Jay Cranor and his wife Susan of Lone Grove, Oklahoma, three grandchildren, Jeffrey, Sandra and Michelle, eight great grandchildren, three great great grandchildren and her Pomeranian dog, Sugar, her extended Cranor family and special long time friends, “The Bennett’s”. She was preceded in death by her parents, husband Ben, four brothers, Glen, Carl, Albert and Harry, and three sisters, Iris McCloud, her twin sister, Lois Doud and infant sister, Fern.

Lola Mae Cranor

October 15, 1924 - July 3, 2015