A service of Remembrance and Celebration of Life for Jewell Dean Fitzgerald, age 90, of Ponca City and formerly of Enid, will be held Thursday, September 4, 2014 at 10:00 AM at St Paul’s Lutheran Church. Rev Scott Whittenburg and Rev Kenneth Wade will officiate. Burial will be in the Memorial Park Cemetery. The family will receive friends at the Ladusau-Evans Funeral Home on Wednesday from 6 to 7 PM.
Jewell was born December 30, 1923 in Butler, Tennessee, the oldest child of Glasco and Tillie Goodwin and died August 31, 2014 in Ponca City, OK. She moved to Oklahoma at the age of 5 and graduated from Garber High School in 1941. She attended Hill's Business University in Oklahoma City.
She worked as a secretary for the National Youth Administration in Enid during World War II. She also worked for Southwestern Bell and J C Penney. She then worked as a secretary for Enid Public Schools at Coolidge and Wilson for 20 years.
She was a member of St. Paul's Lutheran Church, the American Legion Auxiliary, Beta Sigma Phi Delta Chapter, Red Bud Garden Club, Lutheran Women's Missionary League, St. Paul's Visiting Circle, Abraham
Prayer Ministry and Enid Senior Citizens.
She married Delson Fitzgerald Nov. 1, 1950. He preceded her in death on Oct. 28, 1993.
She is survived by her children, Steve and LeAwna Fitzgerald, Ponca City; Susan and Ron Ivey, Edmond; Stan and Cheryl Fitzgerald, Edmond, three grandsons, Ron Ivey Jr and wife, Kathryn of Washington, D.C., Jimmy Ivey of Edmond and Joe Fitzgerald of Ponca City. She is also survived by her brother and sister-in-law Bob and Karen Goodwin of Enid, sister-in-law Ruth Goodwin of Benbrook, Texas and special friend Arnold Schweer as well as many loving nieces and nephews.
She was preceded in death by her parents, her husband and brother Bill Goodwin.
Memorial contributions may be made in her name to St. Paul' s Lutheran Church, 1626 E. Broadway, Enid, OK 73701 or Marland Children's Home: (formerly the American Legion Children's Home) 1300
Summers Place, Ponca City. OK 74604. Condolences may be made online at ladusauevans.com