Age 75, Lawton - Funeral services will be 10:00 AM Saturday at the First Baptist Church. Mrs. Deutschendorf died Wednesday in Corn. Burial will be in Highland Cemetery under the direction of Becker Funeral Home & Cremation Service. She was born May 11, 1935 in Lawton, OK. She graduated from Lawton High School in 1953 and attended Cameron University where she was voted Queen of the ROTC Ball and Queen of the Basketball team. Sammy married Abe Deutschendorf on August 17, 1956. She graduated from Cameron University in 1969 with a Bachelors degree in Elementary Education. She then began a career as a First Grade and Kindergarten teacher for the Lawton Pubic Schools at Kuntz Elementary for 26 years. She was also director of the High School youth group at Trinity Baptist Church. Sammy loved her family, and enjoyed genealogy. She was an inaugural member of the Oklahoma Twin Territories Pioneer Group. She loved teaching and touched many lives throughout her career. She was an avid photographer and a talented singer, performing with the Cameron Choir. She raised butterflies in her garden and took caterpillars to school with her where her students could marvel at their transformation. She is survived by her husband of the home; two sisters, Betty Edmondson, Lawton, and Kay Tillman, Guy, Arkansas; a son and daughter-in-law, Jerry and Cindy Deutschendorf, Tuttle, OK; a daughter and son-in-law, Ernie and Terri Sherman, Lawton; seven grandchildren: Ty Deutschendorf, Trisha Rood and husband Zach, David Sherman, and Amber Gachot and husband, Shannon, Elizabeth Hayse, Dixie Hayse and Travis Brittain and wife Tara ; six great-grandchildren: Christian Matthew, Callie Madison, Jackson Patrick, Carly Morgan, Zach Birdsong and Mason Azlin. She was preceded in death by her parents Charles Samuel and LaMona Doris Grimes Thomas. Visitation will be Thursday and Friday at the funeral home. Special visitation for family and friends will be from 5 to 7:30 p.m. Friday at the funeral home.