Violet Quesenbury-Day

Violet Mae “Jackie” Wilson Quesenbury-Day Violet “Jackie” Quesenbury-Day, a resident of Okmulgee, passed away Tuesday, October 19, 2010 at the age of 80. She was born on November 17, 1929 at Eram, Oklahoma, only child to Ruby and Othel Wilson. Violet attended grade school in Eram, Oklahoma, Plainview, Kansas and attended high school at Morris, Oklahoma and graduated from the American Home School in Chicago, Illinois in 1956. She had been employed at the William Penn Drug in Tulsa and later on at the Lancastle Plumbing and Electric Company in Haskell as well as the Thomas and Drake Cannering Company. On December 30, 1950, she married Elton Gene Quesenbury in Magazine, Arkansas. They raised five children, where Violet ironed for the public for 20 years and for 5 years, she worked as a cleaning person for Mansburger and Volturo and at the Social Security office. Mr. Quesenbury preceeded her in death in October of 1982, this is where Violet adopted a grandson, David Jr. to raise. Violet loved to see flowers grow and bloom. She enjoyed going to yard sales, senior’s dances, casinos, doing crafts, crocheting, watching Nascar races and collecting elephants. She wrote letters to Pen Pals since 1961. She also loved to play bingo and she done some volunteer work as a girl scout leader for 3 years and under the Lakewood council as a reporter and secretary for the Carpenters Union in Okmulgee for 6 years. She helped in the sewing project for the Cripple Children’s Hospital in Oklahoma City. She was a member of the Okmulgee C.B. Club, known as Pine Cone. Mrs. Day loved to teach craft classes at the Nutrition-Senior Citizens on north Seminole Street in Okmulgee, where she enjoyed fellowship and to take part in working puzzles there and to call bingo numbers every Tuesday. She was employed under the Green Thumb Program in Okmulgee, until her retirement in March 17, 1995. Then she moved to Beggs and married Carl Day in Harrison, Arksansas, where he preceded in death in October 1995. Violet and her mother, Ruby Wilson, both converted under the ministry of Reverend Cecil Flowers at the First Baptist Church in Morris in 1940. Mrs. Day loved taking trips with her children and grandchildren. She was well loved by her neighbors and friends and volunteered to help others. She was preceded in death by her parents; her two husbands, Elton Gene Quesenbury in 1982 and Carl Day in 1995; in-laws, Mae and Sylvester Miller; two sons, David Quesenbury Sr. and Phillip Quesenbury. Survivors include her children, Mark Quesenbury and wife, Teresa of Broken Arrow, John Quesenbury and wife, Dawn of Okmulgee, David Quesenbury, Jr. and wife, Jennifer of Tulsa, Nancy Miller and husband, Fred of Denison, TX and Mary Russell and husband, Daniel of Sand Springs; daughter-in-law, Ellen Quesenbury of Keller, TX; sixteen grandchildren; twenty-three great grandchildren and numerous other relatives and friends. Visitation will be held Thursday from 9:00 a.m. to 8:00 p.m. at the Shurden-Jackson Funeral Home in Okmulgee. Services will be held at 2:00 p.m. Friday, October 22, 2010 at the Shurden-Jackson Funeral Home in Okmulgee with Mike Kennedy officiating. Friends may send their condolences to www.shurdenjackson.com