Johnnie Lee Stamper passed away peacefully on June 24, 2015. Graveside services will be held at the A.L. Stephens Memorial Park Cemetery, Clayton, Oklahoma, at 11:00 a.m. Saturday, August 29, 2015. She was born on April 27, 1914, in Porum, Oklahoma, to Mary Armor Bell and, posthumously, to John Alexander Bell, Mrs. Stamper grew up in Antlers, Oklahoma, where she and her mother and older sister, Marian, lived with her maternal grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Rosenbaum. In 1932 Johnnie Lee entered Oklahoma A. and M. College where she pledged Zeta Tau Alpha social sorority, and later she attended Southeastern State Teachers' College in Durant. Upon her return to Antlers after college, she met Joe Allen Stamper on February 5, 1936, and they married four months later on June 5. They were happily married for 68 years until Joe's death in 2004. Her family and her church were always the main focus of Johnnie Lee's life. She was a lifelong member of the First Baptist Church of Antlers where she served in numerous capacities including third grade Sunday school teacher and Sunday School Superintendent. She was passionate about helping those less fortunate and frequently took clothing and food to needy families in Antlers. Johnnie Lee was a member of the Twentieth Century Study Club in Antlers where she often gave book reviews and other programs. An avid reader she believed that education is a lifelong process and remained keenly interested in world affairs and politics until her death. She was a proud Democrat. International travel also gave Johnnie Lee great pleasure, particularly trips to England. She and her husband traveled a great deal during the later years of their marriage as she accompanied him to meetings of the American Bar Association which he served many years as a member of the House of Delegates. Another of her interests was entertaining, and she loved to give teas and other parties. Her Christmas tea for which she prepared all the food and gave annually until her eightieth birthday was greatly anticipated by all who were invited. Johnnie Lee is survived by her daughter and son-in-law, Jane and Ernest Godlove of Santa Fe, New Mexico, two grandchildren, Christopher Godlove and his partner Julien Hartley of Washington, D.C., and Amanda Erwin and her husband, Keith, and their children Joseph and Molly of Edmond. Other survivors are her sister's children, Dr. E.B. Shaw of the Philippines, and Anne Nordsig of Irving, Texas. Johnnie Lee was a warm, generous and strong woman, and her family is and will be forever grateful for the gift of her life and for the memories they will always treasure. In lieu of flowers the family asks that memorial contributions be made to the First Baptist Church, 208 N.E. B Street, Antlers, Oklahoma 74523.