Funeral for Geneva Taptto, 80, Walters, will be at 2;30 p.m. Friday January 27, 2017 at Becker-Rabon Funeral Home Chapel in Lawton with the Sharon Faith Taptto, Pastor of Ponca Full Gospel Church, Ponca City and the Rev. Videll Yackeschi, Westside Baptist Church, Walters officiating.

Burial will follow in the Deyo Mission Cemetery.

The family will greet friends for visitation Thursday evening, January 26, 2017 from 6pm until 8pm at the funeral home.

Our beloved Mother, Grandmother and Great-Grandmother, Geneva Taptto, 80, lifelong Walters resident went to be with her Lord and Savior Jesus Christ on Friday, January 20, 2017 after a long battle with cancer. She passed peacefully surrounded by her loving sons in her home.

Geneva Taptto was born to Rie Dodge Fawbush Sr. and Sallie (Houvah) Fawbush on July 13, 1936 in Lawton, OK. She was a proud elder member of the Comanche Nation of Oklahoma. She married Hollis L. Taptto in 1958 in Inglewood, Calif. She grew up in the Ahpeatone community where she attended grade school and graduated high school in 1954 where she was a standout basketball player. She attended one year at Ft. Sill Indian School and completed studies at Dalton Business College Lawton, OK.

She worked for Hughes Aircraft as a clerk typist in Calif., in1955. She then worked for Haggar Slacks plant in Lawton in 1966. She worked as a teacher's aide at Walters Grade School and worked as a library aid at Walters High School in the mid 1970's. While at Walters High she helped organize an Indian club which was the first for Walters High. She then worked as owner and manager with her husband Hollis, to help operate the Super Chief Restaurant in Lawton.

She enjoyed working for the Comanche Nation Housing Authority and being a Tribal Council member for the Comanche Nation in the 70's & 80's.

She was a former Comanche Homecoming Princess in the mid 1950's. She enjoyed participating at local Pow-wow's. She enjoyed sewing and oil painting as hobbies. She enjoyed volunteering for the Muscular Dystrophy Assn and volunteering for many Native American causes. In her later life she enjoyed spending quality time with her family and grandkids.

Survivors include three sons: Richard and Tammy Taptto of Billings, Montana; Neal and Jacqui Taptto of Norman, OK and Scotty Taptto of the home; three granddaughters: Tiffany Taptto; Alora and Mikayla Taptto; one grandson; Michel Nizolak and a soon to be born granddaughter; 3 three great-grandchildren; two sisters: Wanda Maxey and Ava Doty; many other relatives and friends.

She was preceded in death by her parents, grandparents, husband, Hollis Taptto; daughter, Cheryl Taptto; granddaughter, Mandy Taptto; two brothers: Ernest Fawbush and Rie Fawbush Jr.,nephew Darrell Neil "Bernie" Maxey and two nieces, Rietta "Fisty" Fawbush and Candace Tidwell.

Memorial contributions may be made to charity of your choice.