Marjorie was born January 28, 1928, in Alva, Oklahoma, and passed from this life on November 8, 2024, in Fairview, Oklahoma.
She attended school in Alva.
She married Wayne Richter in April 1946. They lived and farmed at Lambert, Oklahoma, until moving five miles west of Aline, Oklahoma, around 1954. She loved being a farmer’s wife. This included baking, canning, growing large gardens, running tractors, and raising three kids. She always enjoyed hosting multiple nieces and nephews at the farm.
She came from an era of hard workers and always seemed to enjoy it. She also worked jobs outside the home for extra money: cooking at Aline School, wrapping meat at the locker, and working for Coles Flowers until Wayne’s death in 1969 after 25 years of marriage. She later moved to Cherokee, Oklahoma, to be closer to work and later worked for Holderby John Deere.
Nine years later she married Willard Holderby. Upon Williard’s death in 2008 after 30 years of marriage, she moved back to her farm at Aline, where she lived until moving to Cheyenne Wyoming in 2010 to live with her daughter, Marsha and son-in-law, Phil. That lasted six years and then she informed her family that she was moving back to Oklahoma because the weather in Wyoming was too long and cold in the winter.
She moved into the Fairview Fellowship Assisted Living for several years until she broke her hip and later broke her femur at which time she had to reside at the Fairview Fellowship Home. She also broke her other hip and later her knee in 2024. Possibly, these injuries were a result of her stubbornness, determination and “I can do it myself” attitude. We all loved this strong-willed, stubborn lady so much.
Thank you to all the Fellowship Home Staff who took such wonderful care of her. Mom talked of them often as to how great they were to her. Also, Traditions Hospice took such loving care of Mom and looked after every need she had in the end.
Those preceding Marjorie in death include her parents, Russell Kasperak and Helen (Snyder) Kasperak Sternberger; husbands, William (Wayne) Richter, and Willard W. Holderby; son, Russell Wayne Richter and wife, Brenda; two brothers, Jimmy Parker and Max Kasperak; two sisters, Georgie Lee Cole and Joanne Roberts; son-in-law, Doug Phillips; niece, Glenda and nephews, Russell and Edwin.
Survivors include her daughters, Dianne Waynell (Richter) Phillips and Marsha Maxine (Richter) Kiner and husband, Phil; grandchildren, Wayne Richter and wife, Dana, Marti Salas, Cory Lynn Phelps, Matt Phillips and wife, Monica, Rebbecca Dalrymple, Zola Williams, Lora Miller, Beth Holderby, David Holderby, and Jeremy Holderby; great grandchildren, Paige Salas, Bailey Salas, Mikayla Phelps, Cole Richter, Brock Phillips and wife, Megan, Samantha Phillips, Taylor Knopf and husband, Thomas, Damion and Katelin Frederick, Renea Duncan, Victoria Thompson, Stephen Duncan, Blake and Tristen Miller; great-great grandchildren, Aspen Phillips, Theo Knopf, and Finley Miller.
Graveside service for Marjorie was held Wednesday, November 13, 2024, at 1 p.m. at Maple Grove Cemetery south of Cherokee. Arrangements were by Lanman Funeral Home, Inc. Online condolences may be made at http://www.lanmanfuneralhome.com.
Donations can be made to the Fairview Fellowship Home or to the Maple Grove Cemetery through the funeral home.
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