Glenda Jean Clinkenbeard died Monday evening, April 4, 2022 at 8:30 pm with her daughter at her bedside.
Glenda Jean (Jeanie) Clinkenbeard was born Aug. 2, 1928 to Oliver Mitchell and Myrtle Mae (Oliver) Bonner at Byars, OK and lived there until 1942 where she finished the 8th grade. She finished her Junior Year at Stratford, OK, where they moved in 1942. Dad was a Pentecostal Holiness minister and was sent to Stratford to pastor there. He was sent to Davis, OK, to pastor the church there on Aug. 9, 1945.
Jean met David Wayne Clinkenbeard there, and they married on Aug. 13, 1945 in Gainesville, TX and moved to Oklahoma City where he was working at General Mills.
When he was drafted to the army in 1946 and sent to the Philippines as an MP, Jean lived with her parents at Davis during that time and worked at Palace Drug Store.
In 1949, they bought a small acreage at the north edge of Moore, OK.
Over the next several decades she lived in Wanette, Shawnee, Bethel Acres, where they built homes on their properties.
Wayne and Jean celebrated their 70th anniversary, Aug. 15, 2015. With their health still failing their family moved them to Rivermont Independent Living at Norman, OK, on Aug. 29, 2015.
Jean was preceded in death by her husband Wayne in 2015, two brothers and their wives; sister and husband; her son, Terry; mother and father; and daughter-in-law, Janet Clinkenbeard.
Jean is survived in death by her daughter, Marilyn and husband Steve Hurt of Wayne, OK; her son, Mitch and wife Janet (deceased) Clinkenbeard of Newalla, OK; six grandchildren; 15 great-grandchildren; and 3 great-great-grandchildren.
Service was April 8, 2022 at Cooper Funeral Home Chapel with Pastor Mark Guinn, Living Love Christian Center, Shawnee, OK and Reverend Toby Clinkenbeard officiating. Burial followed at Tecumseh Cemetery under the direction of Cooper Funeral Home of Tecumseh. The celebration of Jean’s life was live streamed through Cooper Funeral Home’s Facebook page.
