Rosemary Jane Magee

Graveside services for Rosemary Magee will be 11:00 a.m. Saturday, September 3, 2022, at Pleasant Ridge Cemetery north of Carmen. Arrangements are entrusted to Wentworth Mortuary, LLC. Rosemary Jane Neese was born February 29, 1928, the youngest of the six children of Elza and Byrd (Lee) Neese, on the farm her Grandpa Robert Neese claimed in the Land Run of 1893 southeast of Carmen and left this world August 31, 2022. At a very young age she was given a nick name, which almost everyone knew her by “Rosie”. Rosemary attended school her first three years in the one room school, Richvalley, Distrist 92. The same school her Aunts, Uncles, older brothers and sisters attended before her time. The family moved into Carmen when she was nine years old, where she attended Carmen Public School, graduating with the Class of 1946. She was baptized into Christ March 25, 1941, and remained faithful to Him all of her life. She attended worship service at the Helena Church of Christ and Carmen Christian Church. On December 25, 1945, she married Jack Magee at Cherokee, Oklahoma. For the first five years of their marriage, they lived on Magee Farm, southwest of Carmen. This was where their two sons Jack Nelson and Steven Douglas were born. Due to poor economy and no work available Jack got a job at Boeing Airplane Company in Wichita, Kansas, in February 1951. They lived in Wichita two and half years then moved to Belle Plaine, Kansas, where they raised their family. Rosemary was a stay at home mom and enjoyed keeping house and doing things for and with her family. She was a cub scout den mother six years, a room mother, a member and served as an officer of the PTA, and involved in any other community affairs. Jack’s work as an aircraft modification and repair mechanic took him to airforce bases all across the United States. When the boys were grown and gone from home Rosemary traveled with him full time. Every place they lived they made life time friends that they kept in touch with. Where ever they lived God gave Rosemary a mission to fulfill in her spare time, Jack was her helpmate with these missions. When Jack retired July 26, 1986, they moved back to their “Home Town” Carmen. When asked, you have lived all across the United States, where did you like it the best and her answer, “Where I am right now, Carmen.” Rosemary was inducted into the Alfalfa County Hall of Fame in 1993, an active member of the Carmen Historical Organization of Oklahoma and the After 55 Club, she served many years on the community funeral dinner committee. Rosemary worked six years as assistant cook at the Carmen-Dacoma School Cafeteria at the Carmen site with her good friend Earlene Moser. She was preceded in death by her parents, her husband of 59 years Jack, September 24, 2004, three brothers and their wives, Bob and Lola Neese, Wilbur and Thelma Neese, Chester and Mary Neese; two sisters and their husbands, Alice and Roy Speaker and Gracie and Frank Clover; sister-in-law and her husband, Nelda and Vernie Burkhart; Mother and Father-in-law, Nelse and Nona Magee. She is survived by two sons, Jack N. and wife, Connie, of Clever, Missouri, Steven D. and wife, Irala, of Edmond; five grandchildren, Rod Magee and wife, Lisa, of Piedmont, Sean Magee and wife, Stacy, of Mulvane, Kansas, Noel Magee of Clever, Missouri, Angela Shelton and husband, Ryan, of Ponca City, and Pamela Magee of Edmond; eight great-grandchildren, Jordan Magee, Jonna Parker and husband, Taylor, of Tyler, Texas, Brianna Magee of Topeka, Kansas, Megan Magee of Wichita, Kansas, Maddison Grace Magee of Wichita, Kansas, Andrew Jack Shelton, Ezra Shelton, Neesa Shelton, all of Ponca City; two great-great grandchildren, Isaac Scott Parker and Ivy Jane Parker of Tyler, Texas; many nieces, nephews, other relatives and friends. Memorial contributions may be made through the mortuary to the After 55 Club or the Carmen Park Fund.

Rosemary Jane Magee

February 29, 1928 - August 31, 2022