Mabel Irene Wride

Mabel Irene Wride, age 95, passed on August 30, 2017, in Tulsa, Oklahoma. She will be greatly missed by her family, friends and many acquaintances developed during her life as a Bartlesville resident for 65 years. Mabel Irene Miller was born in 1922 on a farm near Geneva, Nebraska. She was the daughter of Ross and Gertrude (Sughrue) Miller. After five years in a country school she attended St. Joseph Catholic School in Geneva for three years and graduated from Geneva High School in May 1939. During World War II she worked in the War Production Office in Washington, D.C. and later transferred to the Corps of Engineers where she worked in their Division Office in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, during the building of the Alaska Highway. In March 1948, she graduated from Iowa State University with a Bachelor of Science degree in Household Equipment. She and William James (Jim) Wride were married at St. Cecelia Catholic Church in Ames, Iowa, on March 29, 1948. They continued to live in Ames until January 1952. During that time she was a secretary for an Ames lawyer while Jim finished his requirements for a doctorate in December 1948 at Iowa State College. They lived in Ames for three more years where Jim worked as a co-owner of a private engineering consulting firm with his brother-in-law Dick Gayer. In January 1952 Mabel and her husband Jim moved to Bartlesville, Oklahoma, where he was employed as a Chemical Engineer by Phillips Petroleum Company’s R and D Division. She continued to live in Bartlesville until just recently when she moved to Tulsa to be closer to her three children. Mabel was a member of St. John Catholic Church, Sunset Country Club and Jane Phillips Hospital Auxiliary. She was active in all of these organizations including 18 years as a volunteer in the hospital recovery room. For several years she was a tutor of English as a second language for immigrants to the USA. She was also active in many other volunteer projects and activities over the years and served as treasurer of several organizations. After Jim’s retirement from Phillips in 1984, Mabel and Jim continued to live in Bartlesville and traveled extensively in the U.S. and joined groups for international travel to Austria, Germany, Switzerland, Ireland, Spain, Portugal, Jordan, Egypt, Mexico, New Zealand and Australia. She was preceded in death by her husband Jim Wride; her parents Ross L. Miller and Gertrude C. Miller; two brothers, Eugene Miller of Nashua, Iowa, and Paul Miller of Lincoln, Nebraska; and two sisters Dorothy Gayer of Epsom, New Hampshire, and Mildred Finnegan of Ames, Iowa, an infant son and son-in-law Anthony (Tony) Cavallo. She is survived by one son, John Wride of Tulsa, Oklahoma, and two daughters, Barbara Ferguson and husband Scott of Tulsa and Marilyn Cavallo of Owasso, Oklahoma, and her sons Anthony Cavallo of Durant, OK, his wife Lindsay and their three children Luke, A.J. and Emma and Jeffrey Cavallo of Broken Arrow, OK, his wife Seanna and their two children Kane and Derek. A rosary and visitation will be held on Friday, September 1 at 6:00 pm at Stumpff Funeral Home Chapel, 1600 SE Washington Blvd in Bartlesville, Oklahoma. A funeral Mass will be held on Saturday, September 2 at 10:00 am at St. John Before the Latin Gate Catholic Church, 715 S Johnstone Ave, Bartlesville. In lieu of flowers, donations can be made to the St. John Catholic School Building Fund or the charity of your choice.

Mabel Irene Wride

January 20, 1922 - August 30, 2017