Graveside service for C. Maxine Stabler will be at 10:00 a.m. Thursday, August 8, 2024, in Highland Cemetery with Randy Mathis of Ackerly Church of Christ, Ackerly, Texas, officiating.

Burial will be in the Highland Cemetery, Lawton, Oklahoma.

The family will greet friends Wednesday evening from 5pm until 7pm at the funeral home.

Carmelita Maxine Thedford was born on August 16, 1930, to Buren C. Thedford and Pearl O. Thedford in Tyler, Texas. She passed away on August 2, 2024, at the age of 93. Maxine attended elementary school in Whitehouse, Texas. She graduated from Tyler High School in 1947 and Tyler Commercial College in 1948.

On May 6, 1948, she married Robert P. Stabler of Geronimo, Oklahoma. They lived in several different cities in Texas and Oklahoma until they moved to Lawton, Oklahoma, in May 1957, where they settled and resided until their deaths. They had two children, Jeffrey C. Stabler and Ginny K. Woody.

In addition to being a homemaker, Maxine and her husband Bob owned Carnation Ice Cream Wonderland during the 1970s. She also worked as a receptionist for various local physicians in Lawton for many years. She was an avid antique collector and enjoyed going to garage sales and estate sales. Maxine was a member of the Church of Christ and had been a faithful Christian since her baptism in 1949. She loved worshipping the Lord and attended the 8th & Lee Church of Christ and, in recent years, the Northwest Church of Christ.

She is survived by her son, Jeffrey C. Stabler; her grandchildren, Melody Rose and Kimberly Mathis and her husband, Randy; and her great-grandchildren, Alyssa Bernheiser, Hannah Gordon, Wyatt Gordon, Noah Mathis, Caleb Mathis, and Zoe Mathis.

She was preceded in death by her husband, Bob Stabler; second husband Robert C. Thomason; her parents, Buren and Pearl Thedford; her daughter, Ginny K. Woody; and her sister, JoAnn Richardson.