Thelma B. Wyaco Obituary - Visitation & Funeral Information

Thelma B. Wyaco, of Edmond, Oklahoma, passed on October 24, 2018, at age 97. She was born on February 12, 1921 in Vinita, Oklahoma, to Bert Lewis and Nan Walker Lewis. As a child, Thelma attended Cherokee Elementary in Turley, Oklahoma, and Wyandotte Indian Boarding School in Northeast Oklahoma. She went on to high school at Chilocco Boarding School near Kansas. Immediately after graduation from high school, Thelma attended Tulsa Business College to further her personal education. Thelma began her career during the height of World War II at Douglas Aircraft Corporation in Tulsa, where she assisted in the war effort against Germany. After the war, she moved on to work with the Bureau of Indian Affairs in New Mexico, the Federal Housing Authority – Housing and Urban Development Department in Tulsa, and later retired from the Federal Aviation Administration at age 79, resulting in over a 40-year career with the United States federal government. Thelma was a strong-minded woman who could accomplish anything she set her mind to. In her free time as a young lady, she enjoyed dancing at Caine’s Ballroom and spent the latter of her weekends there to socialize with her friends from Chilocco Boarding School and visit with the local community. She loved to go to pow-wows and participate in the War Dance and Stomp Dance. She loved big band music, swing music, the jitter bug and Glenn Miller, and even starred as an extra in a film with Kirk Douglas called The Big Carnival. She will be deeply missed. Thelma is survived by her three daughters, Candy Cypert and husband Clif of Edmond, Oklahoma; Pamela Zisman and husband David of Atlanta, Georgia; and Kathy R. Nidiffer and her husband Bill of Thatcher, Arizona. Additionally, she has one surviving sister, Nadine Starr of Tulsa. Thelma leaves a legacy of five grandsons, Samuel Alden Cypert II, Jonathan Nidiffer, Christopher Nidiffer, Chad Moore, and Chase Moore, as well as a host of other relatives and friends. Thelma was preceded in death by her parents Bert and Nan, her son Donald Wyaco, and her two sisters Lavonne Paddlety and Lavern Starr. Services for Thelma are scheduled for Saturday, October 27, 2018, 2:00 P.M. at the Peoples Cooperative Funeral Home Chapel with interment immediately following at Rock Cemetery outside of Granite. Viewing will be until 5:00 P.M., today, Friday at People’s Funeral Home and Saturday beginning at 8:00 A.M. Arrangements are entrusted to People’s Funeral Home located at 1400 West Main, Lone Wolf, Okla., 580-846-9018. On-line condolences can be made for Thelma by visiting www.peoplescooperativefuneralhome.com.

Thelma B. Wyaco

February 12, 1921 - October 24, 2018

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