Mary Louise Pummill McCaslin Horst's Obituary
Mary Louise Pummill was born on April 4, 1919, in Buffalo, Missouri, to Luther Calvin Pummill and Serilda Exona Pummill. She was the third of four children. When she was two the family moved to Newton, Kansas, and at the age of six she accepted Christ as her savior. She attended school in Newton, Kansas, graduated from high school in 1937 and attended Bethany Peniel College in Bethany, Oklahoma. After two years of college she went to Kansas City, Missouri and was a secretary at World Headquarters of the Church of the Nazarene. While there at a Halloween patty she met Harold Glen McCaslin and a year later. on November I, 1942, they married in Kansas City, Missouri. Two weeks later Glen was drafted and spent twenty-seven months in the South Pacific during World War ll. Mary and Glen had four children, two girls and two boys. Over the course of her life Mary lived in eight states. Primarily she was a homemaker but her talents included cooking, sewing, singing and playing the piano. At one time Glen owned a weekly newspaper and she set type on a linotype machine. After Glen retired, the two of them built two homes doing most of the work themselves which included framing, wiring and roofing. Mary’s hobbies included bird watching, reading, camping, trout fishing, traveling and working crossword puzzles. After Glen passed away in 1998, Mary married her high school sweetheart, Orville Horst on January 9, 2000 and moved to Atascadero, California. Several years later she and Orville moved to Colorado Springs, Colorado, where they lived until he passed away in 2008. At his death she moved to Tulsa, Oklahoma. She was preceded in death by her parents, one brother, two sisters and two husbands. She is survived by daughter Virginia (Gwenan) Childress of Tulsa, son James (Janice) McCaslin of Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, daughter Janet (Roger) Hostetler of Norman, Oklahoma, son Thomas (Diane) McCaslin of Corinth, Texas, nine grandchildren and twenty great grandchildren, sister-in-law Elaine (Jim) Brininstool of Zephyrhills, Florida, and numerous nieces and nephews.Visitation will be held on Sunday, January 24, 2016 at Floral Haven Funeral Home of Broken Arrow, Oklahoma from 12 pm to 8 pm with family to greet from 6 pm to 8 pm. Services will be at Floral Haven Funeral Home Chapel of Broken Arrow, Oklahoma on Monday, January 25, 2016 at 10:00 am.
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