Graveside service for Cecelia Shanks Teas will be at 11:00 am Monday, January 4, 2016 in the Faxon Cemetery, Faxon, Oklahoma.

Mrs. Teas passed away Thursday, December 17, 2015 in McCamey, Texas.

Burial will be in the Faxon Cemetery under the direction of Becker-Rabon Funeral Home.

Cecelia Teas, 93, McCamey, Texas was born August 23, 1922 south of Cache, Oklahoma in the home of her parents Cecil and Ola Shanks. She attended Post Oak School and later graduated from Chattanooga High School in 1940. Cecelia and Billy F. Teas married and settled in Odessa, Texas where they owned and operated a car lot and laundry for many years. The couple retired south of Odessa in McCamey, Texas where they developed the TEAS Ranch and housing development. She enjoyed hunting trips and holiday get together with her sister and brothers-in-law and all of her nieces and nephews.

She is survived by her nieces and nephews; Sharon Peters of California, Brent Peters of Faxon, Rodney Reece of Midwest City, Debra Pennington of Edmond, Joy Swearingen of Edmond, Ron Martens of Waynesville, North Carolina, Mark Zahourek of Norman, Lisa Goss of Moore, Oscar Shanks of Enid and Sonia Barbour of Oklahoma City.

She was preceded in death by her parents, husband and sisters: Noma Peters, Mary Lou Swearengen, Marguerite Martens Swearengen, Eddie Belle Zahourek and her brother Oscar Shanks.