Goldie V. Pettle

Chapel Services for Goldie Pettle, 100, longtime Clinton Educator, will be held 11:00 A.M., Monday, January 28, 2019 in the Kiesau Memorial Chapel, officiated by Doyle Kinney. Burial will follow in the Clinton Cemetery under the direction of the Kiesau-Lee Funeral Home. Goldie Vinita Pettle, daughter of Ernest and Christina (Stehr) Klump was born July 4, 1918, on the family farm one mile west of Bessie, Oklahoma. She passed away Wednesday, January 23, 2019 in the Grace Living Center in Clinton, Oklahoma. Goldie was raised in Bessie and graduated from Bessie High School in 1936. She married Cecil Pettle on October 24, 1941. She received her Bachelor's of Science in Education from Southwestern Institute of Technology in 1941 and her Masters of Education Degree from the University of Oklahoma in 1956. She began her teaching career teaching all grades in a one room country school in Washita County. She taught at the Guy School from 1939 to 1941 and went from there to Concord School where she taught from 1941 to 1943. She then taught elementary classes in Cordell for three years. She moved with her husband, Cecil, to Clinton in 1947 and started teaching at Nance School. At the time of her retirement in 1981 she had taught 35 years in the Clinton School System and a total of 42 years in education. In 1979 she was selected as the Teacher of the Year in the Clinton Public Schools. Goldie and Cecil enjoyed traveling, and had been on seven cruises. Goldie enjoyed collecting oriental treasures from her many travels. They also had season tickets for many years to the Oklahoma University home football games and seldom missed a game. She was a member of the First United Methodist Church, Les Amies Bridge Club and the Oklahoma Educators Association. Goldie was preceded in death by her parents, her husband, Cecil, her two sisters June Duerksen and husband John, Leoda Mueller and husband, Ferd, as well as two nephews Tom Mueller and Nelson Mueller. She is survived by two nieces, Kay Fry and husband, Walter, of Kiowa, Kansas, and Arleene Kreier of Salina, Kansas.