IN LOVING MEMORY OF

Mary Lou

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Bayona

Mar 15, 1935 — Oct 19, 2010

Obituary

Age 75, Lawton - Mass of Christian Burial will be 11:00 a.m. Friday in the Holy Family Catholic Church with Rev. Philip Seeton, Pastor officiating. Mrs. Bayona died Tuesday at her residence. Burial will be in Sunset Memorial Gardens under the direction of the Becker Funeral Home & Cremation Service. A wake service will be held at 6:00 p.m. Thursday at the funeral home chapel. Mrs. Bayona was born March 15, 1935 at Fort Sill, Oklahoma, to Joseph Narmore and Gloria Crosby. She was a 1953 graduate of Lawton High School. She earned her BS in education from the University of Oklahoma in 1956 and a BA in Pastoral Ministry from Kansas Newman College in 1997. She married Pedro M. Bayona on October 29, 1976 in Lawton and accompanied her husband to various assignments in Germany, Fort Dix, New Jersey and the Sergeants Major Academy at Fort Bliss, Texas. She worked as a teacher for the Department of the Army in Geissen, Germany and as the Director of Religious Education for Blessed Sacrament Catholic Church from 1990 until 2002. She served as a volunteer with the Foster Care Review Board in Comanche County in 1990, Army Community Service at Fort Sill and the Wives Support Group, 212th Field Artillery Group and the 230th Finance Support Regiment at Fort Sill. She was inducted into the Artillery Order of Molly Pitcher in 1978 at Fort Sill. She is survived by her husband, of the home; a daughter and son in law, Kathleen O'Toole Smith and husband Jeff Smith, Waunake, Wisconsin; two grandchildren, Nicholas and Jacob Smith; two sisters and brothers in law, Nettie Mae and Joe Sheppard, Sun City, Arizona and Joleen and Gerald Stecik, Vandergrift, Pennsylvania; two nieces and their husbands, Doris and Robert Pilato, Georgiana, Alabama, and Barbara and David Rabon, Navarria, Florida; a goddaughter, Vickie O'Grady and husband Buddy, Lawton; special friends, Bobby and Sylvia Morgan, Mary McIsaac, Peggy Kauanui, Sandra Crostley, Koula Lagoutaris, Nichole Buswell, Jennifer and Jakob Edkin and Marjie Comer, all of Lawton. Her parents preceded her in death. Memorial contributions may be made to Mercy Home for Boys and Girls, 1140 W. Jackson Blvd., Chicago IL 60607-2906 or to the St. Vincent DePaul Society, Holy Family Catholic Church, 1010 NW 82nd Street, Lawton OK 73505.

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