Patricia Ann Tompkins

Notes:

The daughter of John Tompkins and Lillian Neely.

Patricia Ann Payne, age 71, passed away on Friday, June 15th at her home in Duncan. Graveside services will be 10:00 A.M. Wednesday, June 20, 2012 in Ft. Sill Post Cemetery with the Rev. Jamie Foshee officiating, under the direction of Don Grantham Funeral Home. The family will receive friends at the funeral home Tuesday, from 5:30 - 7:00 P.M.

Pat was born on January 26, 1941 in Lawton, Oklahoma, the daughter of John Leslie Tompkins and Lillian Mae Neely Tompkins. She attended Lawton Public Schools for eleven years and graduated from Stillwater High School in 1959. She also attended Cameron University.

She married Chadwick C. Payne, Jr. on December 31, 1957 in Burkburnett, Texas. She was a patriotic military wife accompanying Chad to different military bases. Chad preceded her in death on February 9, 2008.

Pat was Executive Director of the Red River Chapter of Red Cross from March 1973 to July 2003.

She is survived by two sons, Scott Payne and wife Michelle of Tulsa, and Rick Payne of Duncan. Also surviving are two sisters, Mary V. Wright of Lawton, and Norma Jean Bowers and husband Carl of Duncan; two grandsons, Kale Payne of Norman, and Blake Payne of Tulsa; four granddaughters, Leslie Majors of Duncan, Candice Payne of Oklahoma City, Lyndsey Payne of Tulsa, and Sydney Payne of Duncan; two great-grandsons, Chase and Hunter Majors of Duncan, and numerous nieces, nephews and other relatives and friends.

Pat was preceded in death by her parents, husband, and a brother, David Tompkins.

Online condolences may be made at www.granthamfuneralhomes.com.

(Courtesy of Lynell Gentry Cordell)

Patricia married Maj. Claude Chadwick Payne, Jr. on 31 Dec 1957 in Burkburnett, Wichita County, Texas. Claude (son of Claude Chadwick Payne and Lois Macel Reed) was born on 14 Feb 1937 in Duncan, Stephens County, Oklahoma; died on 9 Feb 2008 in Duncan, Stephens County, Oklahoma; was buried in Fort Sill Post Cemetery, Lawton, Comanche County, Oklahoma. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. Living
2. Living