Leona Faye Stepp

Funeral Service for Leona Faye Stepp, 75, Elk City resident will be 1:00 P.M., Monday, October 16, 2017 in the Community Fellowship Church in Hammon, OK officiated by Rev. Dolan Ivey. Burial will follow in the Hammon Mennonite Cemetery under the direction of the Kiesau-Lee Funeral Home. A Traditional Wake will be held 7:00 P.M. till 10:00 P.M., Sunday, October 15, 2017 in the Hammon Indian Community Building. Leona Faye Stepp was born January 1, 1942 to Woodrow and Helen (Whiteman) Standingwater in Clinton, Oklahoma and passed away Wednesday, October 11, 2017 in her Elk City home. Leona was raised in Hammon, Oklahoma where she graduated high school in 1960. She married William "Bill" Stepp in 1964 in Elk City, OK. She worked in a Day Care Center in Elk City. She was a member of the Baptist Church; she enjoyed playing bingo. She was preceded in death by her parents, granddaughter, Amber Lynn Candy. She is survived by her husband, "Bill" of the home, daughters, Deanna Davis, Elk City, and Tammi Candy and husband, Rickey, Elk City, OK; son, William "B.J." Stepp, Jr., and wife, Lisa, Elk City; adopted sons, George Levi and wife, Heather, Mustang, OK, Darwin "Yogi" Whiteman and wife, Darlene, Towaoc, CO, and Kevin Davis, Elk City, OK; sisters, Sharon Byrd, and Ruby Standingwater, both of Hammon, OK; adopted sisters, Margie Pewo, Hammon, Emma Brewer, Elk City, Dr. Henrietta Mann, Weatherford, Chloe Ann Orange, Elk City and Emily Whiteman, Towaoc, CO brothers, Leland Standingwater, Hammon, Nathan Standingwater, Hammon and Danny Standingwater and wife Dana, Seiling. She is also survived by nine grandchildren and 12 great-grandchildren and numerous adopted children and grandchildren and her best friend, Mr. Jiggs.