Pamela R Lafever

PAMELA RUTH (THURMAN) LaFEVER, 66 YEARS OLD OF GOTEBO, OKLAHOMA, PASSED AWAY FRIDAY, MARCH 13, 2020 AFTER A LONG BATTLE WITH CANCER. IT WOULD BE WRONG TO SAY SHE LOST HER BATTLE TO CANCER, BECAUSE SHE NEVER REALLY STOPPED FIGHTING. NO MATTER HOW SICK SHE GOT, SHE WAS DETERMINED.

PAM WAS BORN ON JANUARY 20, 1954, IN POTEAU, OKLAHOMA, TO THE LATE RAYMOND AND IRENE (POOR) THURMAN.

PAM MOVED TO GOTEBO IN 1980 WITH HER HUSBAND AND DAUGHTER. AT THAT TIME, SHE WORKED AT THE GOTEBO GET-N-GO. EVENTUALLY, THEY PURCHASED AND RAN THE STORE FOR ALMOST 30 YEARS.

PAM WAS A HUGE SUPPORTER ON MAKING GOTEBO A BETTER PLACE. SHE WAS THE MAYOR AND HAD BEEN INVOLVED IN THE GOTEBO GET DOWN SINCE IT FIRST BEGAN.

PAM LIVED HER LIFE TO THE FULLEST, EVEN UP UNTIL HER LAST DAYS. PAM WAS A HUGE SUPPORTER OF HER GRANDKIDS. SHE LOVED WATCHING THEM PLAY FOOTBALL, BASEBALL AND SOFTBALL. IF THEY WERE PLAYING A GAME, SHE WAS THERE. SHE WAS KNOWN AS "NEE-NEE". EVERYONE CALLED HER THAT.

PAM IS SURVIVED BY HER HUSBAND, RONNIE, OF THE HOME. DAUGHTER TRACI AND HUSBAND BRYAN, THEIR CHILDREN, JAIDYN, JESICA AND BRODY, ALL OF GOTEBO. SON RICHARD AND WIFE RACQUEL, THEIR CHILDREN, LANE AND SAYLOR, OF STIGLER. SON DONNIE, OF WATONGA. HIS CHILDREN, CODY AND SON, KODA, TERENCE AND WIFE NICHOLE, THEIR CHILDREN, ROBBIE AND JEREMY, TYLER, AND MELONIE AND SON, ZANDER, ALL FROM EL RENO. THREE BROTHERS, MARSHAL AND WIFE PAT, OF ELGIN. MARVIN AND WIFE MOLLY, OF YUKON. AND RICK AND WIFE ROBIN, OF GOTEBO. SHE HAD SEVERAL NIECES AND NEPHEWS.

SHE IS PRECEDED IN DEATH BY HER PARENTS, RAYMOND AND IRENE THURMAN, HER SISTER AND BROTHER-IN-LAW, HATTIE AND PERRY BLAKLEY AND NIECE, TAYLOR THURMAN.

Funeral: 2:00 p.m., Tuesday, March 17, 2020
First Baptist Church
Gotebo, Oklahoma

Interment: Gotebo Cemetery
Gotebo, Oklahoma

Visitation: 9:00 a.m. ~ 8:00 p.m., Monday, March 16, 2020
Ray & Martha's Funeral Home
Mountain View, Oklahoma