OBITUARIES

Rosie Boardingham


Rosie Boardingham was born April 23, 1938, in Newalla, Oklahoma to Albert and Beulah Boardingham. On Sunday, February 6, 2022, Rosie, 83, of Anadarko, Oklahoma was called to her heavenly home.
 Graveside service was held on Thursday, February 10, 2022, at Memory Lane Cemetery, Anadarko, OK. 
 Rosie, who was known to some as “Queenie,” attended school in Newalla and Anadarko. When she first moved to Anadarko, Rosie worked at a daycare center, and later worked at Hollytex Carpet Mills. She also worked as a dietary aide.
 Rosie loved to play cards, bingo, go watch movies, and she loved the NBA. She enjoyed the outdoors and loved spending time with her family, friends, and grandchildren.
 Ms. Boardingham had a strong faith in the Lord and she loved gospel music.
 Since November of 2021, Rosie had been a resident at Shanoan Springs Residence Nursing Center in Chickasha, Oklahoma.
 Survivors include sons: Coran “Corky” Boardingham and his wife, Sheila, of Copperas Cove, TX, and Elliott “Doc” Ellis, Rufus “Tootie” Boardingham and his spouse, Shawn Miller-Williams, and Dan Boardingham and his spouse, Christi Sheridan, all of Anadarko, daughter Rosetta Ellis of Chickasha, sisters, Mary Boardingham of Anadarko, Hazel Burton of El Paso, TX, and Alfreta Gill of Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, brothers, Garfield Doakes of Edmond, Oklahoma and Major Boardingham of Anadarko, many grandchildren and great-grandchildren, a host of nieces, nephews, cousins, and other relatives, and Natalie Bankston of Anadarko, who Rosie considered a second daughter.
 Rosie will be welcomed into heaven by her, parents, one sister, one brother, one son, four nephews, one niece, and one daughter-in-law.