A Celebration of Life for Wanda Jean (Crenshaw) Johnston of Enid, Oklahoma will be 11:00 am, Saturday, May 21, 2016 at Emmanuel Baptist Church, with Pastors Wade Burleson, Kevin Choate and Joseph Drueke officiating. Burial will follow at 3:00 pm in Olivet Cemetery in Perkins, Oklahoma. (S. Sangre Road). The family will receive friends at Ladusau-Evans Funeral Home on Friday, May 20, from 6:00 to 8:00 pm.
Wanda was born on April 7, 1933, to parents Lula Faye Smalley and Clarence Homer Crenshaw in Payne County, Oklahoma. At the age of 10, Wanda accepted her Lord Jesus Christ and loved and served Him faithfully on this earth until her death Monday, May 16, 2016 at Bass Pavilion at the age of 83 years. Now her faith has become sight, worshipping her Lord Jesus Christ forever in Heaven and looking after those she left behind here on earth. Wanda loved meeting new people, and she never met a stranger. Upon meeting someone new, Wanda was always concerned for their soul and where they would spend eternity; she never hesitated to ask, “Do you know Jesus?”
On July 27, 1950, Wanda married James Powell Johnston in Garnett, Kansas, and for 64 years they were the loves of each other’s lives. Wanda’s life was her husband Jimmy, her children, her grandchildren, and her great-grandchildren; and she loved each of them dearly. Wanda worked as a customer service representative for many years at the Parisians Department Store in Florence, Alabama, to Enid, Oklahoma, where Wanda worked in INTEGRIS Bass Baptist Health Center’s dining services department, until retiring in the late 1990’s. Wanda was also an active member of Enid’s Emmanuel Baptist Church for more than 25 years.
Wanda is preceded in death by her husband of the home, James Powell Johnston; children, Marilyn Yvonne Drueke, James Powell, Timothy Gene and Teresa Mildred Johnston; her mother, Lula Smalley; father, Clarence Crenshaw; sisters, Gladys Marie Crenshaw and Earline Fay Crenshaw of Perkins, Okla., Opal LowDean Martin of Garland, Texas, and Mildred Lorriane Smith, of Enid, Okla.; brothers, Alva Garitson Crenshaw of Cushing, Okla., Lawrence Homer Crenshaw, of Tulsa, Okla., Mancel Earl Crenshaw of Fillmore, Calif., Clarence Edsel Crenshaw of Perkins, Okla., and Charles Kenneth Crenshaw of Albuquerque, N.M.
Surviving family members include: daughter, Debbie Wilcox, of Enid, Okla., daughter, Jamie Denny and her husband Dale of Enid, Okla., and one sister, Merline May Biswell, of Agra, Okla. Surviving grandchildren include Joseph Drueke and his wife Amanda and Wanda’s great-grandchildren Lahna, Lilly, and Dason Drueke, of Enid, Okla., Sabrina Killian and her husband Lee of Kansas City, Kan., Kayla Denny of Louisville, Ky., and Corey Denny of Stillwater, Okla.
Memorials in Wanda’s name may be made to Emmanuel Baptist Church of Enid’s Missions with Ladusau-Evans Funeral Home serving as custodian of the funds.
Condolences may be made and the services viewed online at www.ladusauevans.com.
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