Judy Gail Williams Lanpheir

Funeral services for Judy Gail Williams Lanpheir, 67, Putnam resident, will be at 2 p.m. Saturday in the Putnam First Christian Church.

Mrs. Lanpheir lost her battle with cancer on March 7, 2015, in Phoenix, Ariz. She was born Sept. 24, 1947 in Clinton, the daughter of Margie Jo (Boileau) and Gerald J. Williams.

After graduating from Putnam High School in 1965, she attended Napa Junior College, Napa, Calif., and Southwestern Oklahoma State University, Weatherford, where she earned a degree in elementary education.

She taught first grade, then kindergarten for 40 years in the Fairfield, Calif. area, one time earning a Teacher of the Year award.

Mrs. Lanpheir established the Williams Family Endowed Scholarship Fund at the SWOSU Foundation in Weatherford for the benefit of a Dewey County high school graduate.

In California, she established the Judy Williams Lanpheir Scholarship Fund at the Assist-A-Grad Scholarship Foundation in Fairfield to benefit graduates of a Fairfield Unified School.

Upon retirement, she spent a majority of her time in Maricopa, Ariz.

Preceding her in death were her parents.

Survivors include two children, Tory JoBryn Lanpheir-Johnson (of Texas) and Tavin Buchanan Lanpheir (of California); three grandchildren, Ryer Johnson, Tessa Johnson and Mia Lanpheir; and one sister, Jane Aiello.

Arrangements are under the direction of Kiesau-Lee Funeral Home in Clinton.

The family suggests donations in her honor may be sent to the SWOSU Foundation, 100 Campus Dr., Weatherford, OK 73096 for the Williams Family Endowed Scholarship Fund.