The funeral service for Marina Rae Groseclose Jines will be 10:00AM Monday, December 21, 2015 in Emmanuel Baptist Church. Rev. Wade Burleson will officiate. A private family burial will follow in Fairview Cemetery under the direction of Henninger-Hinson Funeral Home.
Marina Rae Groseclose Jines was born on December 14, 1946 in Oklahoma City to Walt and Florence Groseclose who lovingly adopted her the day she was born. She grew up in Warner, Ok with her older brother, Kenneth, and developed her humor from her father and her sweetness and love for Jesus from her mother. She always wanted to be a wife and mother and in July 1968 she married Bill Jines who adoringly loved her all his days. Always dreaming of being a mother, she instantly became one to Bill’s two wonderful daughters from his first marriage. Linda Jines Masteller was in college at the time and Sherry Jines LaMunyon was in her late teens and she loved them dearly throughout her whole life. In 1969 she gave birth to Tim and in 1970 to her son, Tracey. Marina was delighted to be a stay at home mom raising her boys and involved herself in playing and being silly all day long. She made so many wonderful friends in Oklahoma City at Northwest Baptist Church and each one was dear and precious to her.
In 1979 the family moved to Fairview, Ok where Marina became the secretary at First Baptist Church. Here many people saw in her a love for Jesus, her husband, her kids, and her friends. She delighted so many people with her wonderful cooking and baking and made every other youth group at Falls Creek jealous for many years as she cooked fantastic and wonderful meals with her close friends. There was never a person Marina met or knew in which she didn’t attempt to love on them and help them somehow. She was kind, generous, and a mom to so many.
When Bill retired in 1998 they moved to Enid and operated a small used car lot for a short time and then a cell phone store in the mall for the next several years. Always the friend to everyone she continued to bless as many people as she could through their small business and her Sunday School class at Emmanuel Baptist Church. They hosted the class in their home for many years and each week she vigorously cleaned her house and baked for her friends. After they closed their cell phone store, she worked at Vance Air Force base and made many more friends whom she mothered and nurtured. During these retirement years she was also united with her biological siblings who she came to adore and treasure.
As a mother and grandmother, there could be no equal. She often commented that she loved her kids “too much” but that love was displayed in humor, silly faces, games of hide and go seek in the dark, and lots of advice and wisdom (whether it was wanted or not) . As a grandmother she spoiled and loved her six grandchildren from Tim and Tracey and her six grandchildren from Linda and Sherry. She equally loved each of her daughter and son-in-laws and treated them as if they were her own children.
On December 16, 2015 Marina was reunited with her husband, Bill, and her Savior, Jesus Christ. After a long battle with several physical ailments stemming from her diabetes and pneumonia her body released her to go home. Her two sons and her daughter-in-law were with her and she is now at peace and renewed. She leaves behind a great legacy of “sweetness”, love, laughter, and good cooking. She dearly loved Bill, her children, her daughter and son-in-laws, grandchildren, great grandchildren, and her siblings. To be absent from the body is to be present with the Lord and this was her final wish. May each person who knew her take comfort and joy in knowing she now has complete joy in the Presence of Jesus. To honor Marina’s desire to be simple and practical, the family requests that in lieu of flowers, donations be made to OU Medical Research Foundation earmarked for diabetes research.
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