Jean Stafford

Jean Stafford passed from this life on May 26, 2019. She was a native of Oklahoma, born at Yale, Oklahoma, March 31, 1931, to Charles Andrew Hestand and Bertha Elvira Hart.

Though born in Yale, she was educated at West Point, Glencoe, and Stillwater. Married September 5, 1948 to Lester V Stafford, of Clinton, Oklahoma. She enjoyed a 32 year career in the oil industry beginning in 1961, in the Executive and Human Resources departments of Skelly Oil Company (later Getty Oil Company and Texaco), retiring in 1993 as Human Resources coordinator for the Comptroller's Department of Texaco, in Tulsa, Oklahoma.

She is survived by her husband; her daughter, Kathi Jean Stafford, and husband Daniel Martin, of Santa Monica, California; her sons, Dr. Charles Stafford and Ed Linfoot of London, England; her daughter, JoAnne Flory, and her husband Rob Flory, of Tulsa; grandsons, Andrew Martin, of Nashville, Tennessee, and Charles Lawrence, and his wife Rebekah, of Tulsa; granddaughters, Elizabeth Coleman, and her husband Johnny, of Birmingham, Alabama, and Katherine Lawrence, of Tulsa; great-granddaughters, Lily Coleman and Kate Coleman.

A private family burial will be held at a later date. Cremation is under the care and direction of Schaudt's Tulsa Funeral Service.