Obituary of Lamona Hester McCallum

LAMONA HESTER BRITTON MCCALLUM, 85, of Tulsa, Oklahoma, departed this life on January 16, 2015, following a brief illness. Lamona was born February 28th, 1929, at home, in Moorewood, Oklahoma, the ninth child of William Edgar and Bobby Eudora Britton. She is survived by her sister, Lois Steiger, her husband, Robert Duncan McCallum, daughter Cynthia Marie Luttrell and son Curtis Duncan McCallum as well as many nieces and nephews, with whom she remained very close. Mona grew up on a cotton farm in Moorewood, Oklahoma, and while she and her parents and siblings worked very hard to survive, Mona told many wonderful stories of the scrapes she and her brothers and sisters got into during her ”growing-up years”, and of the trials of going through elementary school with her older sister as her teacher. After graduating from Leedey High School, Lamona moved to Tulsa, where she was employed at Seismograph Service Corporation and St. Francis Hospital, where she worked for more than twenty years. She was a member of Trinity United Methodist Church all of her adult life, and has many long-time friends there. Mona was always willing to help wherever she was needed and was known for her sweet spirit in every part of her life. Always a hard worker, Mona was an expert seamstress, and was particularly known for her cookies, pies and homemade jams and jellies. Family was the most important thing to Mona. She was always willing to go the extra mile for her parents and siblings and her own husband and kids, and always put others’ needs above her own. Burial will be at the Moorewood Cemetery in Moorewood, Oklahoma at 11:00am on Monday, January 19th. Ninde Brookside Chapel ninde.com 918-742-5556