Arline Signe Speck, 97, passed away Sunday, November 10, 2019 in Lawton.

A private family burial will be at Fairlawn Cemetery in Snyder, Oklahoma under the direction of Becker-Rabon Funeral Home of Snyder. No other services are planned at this time.

Arline was born January 24, 1922 in Cold Springs, Oklahoma to Erick Sven and Signe (Johnson) Nordstrom. She grew up in Roosevelt and Snyder graduating from Snyder High School in 1939. She was the Snyder High School football queen in 1939. Following high school, Arline attended Hamlin College in Minneapolis, Minnesota and the University of Oklahoma where she was a member of the Delta Gamma Sorority. She later worked in the Nordstrom family owned company called the Roosevelt Granite Company. At one time the business was the oldest family owned granite company west of the Mississippi River. Arline was the bookkeeper and later a co-owner of the Roosevelt Granite Company. She was a very patriotic American and loved to travel and play Bridge.

Survivors include her daughter, Signe Thurston and husband Theodore of Austin, Texas, a son, Erick Speck of Snyder, Oklahoma and the family of her cousin, Gunner Johnson.

She was preceded in death by her parents and one sister, Evelyn Joyce.