Arlene Anita VanZant entered this "Life" on the morning of July 13, 1916, just as the sun brightened the eastern sky near Stratford, Oklahoma.

Arlene's father, Moore VanZant had passed from this life five months before her birth; leaving her mother, Gracie Sallie Fletcher VanZant, with two children and one yet to be born. Her mother later married a widower, David Enyart, and to this union 12 children were born.

Arlene spent a lot of her childhood living beside and traveling in a covered wagon on the plains of Oklahoma. Arlene was a life-time resident of this State. Her step-father worked mostly as a sharecropper. She grew up working fields, farming and picking cotton. Oh, the stories she used to tell!

Arlene could recall the first automobile she ever saw. She witnessed the era of the steam-driven farm machines and saw the first jet airplanes in flight. She saw communication go from person to person only, to advanced communication through telephone, radio, and the invention of television and computers. She watched footage as the first men began space travel and as the first man touched the surface of the moon. In her 92 years on this earth, Arlene witnessed the changing of the whole world, but her love of life, her family and church were the threads that tied her life together.

On August 1, 1936, Arlene was united in marriage to Charles William Stoner in Woodward, Oklahoma. They made their home south of Fargo for three years. During these years, two sons were born; Donald Ray and Ronald Dee. They bought seven acres at the northwest corner of Fargo and moved there in 1939. Son, Charles Alonzo and Daughter, Alpha Mae, completed their family.

Beginning in 1950, Arlene was employed as a Psychiatric Aide at Fort Supply Mental Hospital where she worked for 17 years. In 1970, after moving to Shattuck, she was employed as a Nurses Aide by Newman Memorial Hospital where she worked for 15 years.

Arlene liked to read, sing, crochet, sew, travel and spend time with her family. She was a member of the Church of the Nazarene, both at Fargo and later at Shattuck. She loved her Lord and being with others of like faith.

Arlene was preceded in death by her husband, father, mother, one brother and one sister who both died in infancy; her step-father, two step-brothers, one step-sister, five half-brothers, four half-sisters, one son and his wife, one grandchild, and one great-grandchild.

She is survived by her sons and their wives; Donald and Bernice Stoner of Enterprise, Oklahoma, and Ronald and Flo Stoner of Guymon, Oklahoma; daughter Alpha Yeatman of Shattuck, Oklahoma; half-brothers: T.J. Enyart and wife Dottie of Choctaw, Oklahoma; David Enyart and wife Lois of Waverly, Ohio; and Clifford Enyart of Cedar Lake, Oklahoma; 12 grandchildren, 20 great-grandchildren, 18 great great-grandchildren, a host of nieces, nephews and friends.

She will be missed.