Margie Kinsey passed away Jan. 9, 2025. She was born on April 26, 1938, in Shawnee, OK to Minnie (Blanchard) and Thomas Woodrow (Woody) Spybuck. Margie graduated from Tecumseh High School. Throughout the years she worked many jobs alongside her mother and sister, one job in particular was at the Sunset Estates Nursing Home in Tecumseh. She then settled down to finish her career working with juveniles at the Oklahoma Central Juvenile Center in Tecumseh where she retired.
She was a very proud devoted member of the Absentee Shawnee Tribe and was very active in her traditional Shawnee ways to include treasuring her native language and the passionate desire in passing it down to her children and grandchildren. Margie’s home was always open to any child in need throughout the years. She was a proud foster parent showing how compassionate of a spirit she was.
She is preceded in death by her parents; sisters, Joanne Watson and Augustine “Oogie” Johnson.
Margie is survived by her huge loving family to include her sons, Douglas and Travis McGirt, Joseph and Ronald Morton; daughters, Patty Sanders and husband James Thomas, Tisha Kaye (Morton) and Ralph Tall Bear; grandchildren, Danielle and Kristen McGirt, Misty McGirt and partner Brian Bristow, Randall Williams, Sierra Sanders, Chris and wife Kayla, Minnie , Kitty, Walk Up, Suzy and Trevor Tall Bear, Pavenah Vaillancourt, Layla and Kailand Morton; many great-grandchildren; as well as nieces, nephews, other family members and a host of friends.
Tribal Rites began Friday afternoon at Brendle Corner with Glenn Mann officiating.
