Anne Wylie

Juanona Anne (Stallcup) Wylie died in Norman on Wednesday, July 28, 2021 at the age of 80. She was born in Ardmore, Oklahoma on February 23, 1941 to Richmond Franklin Stallcup and Margaret Anne (McElroy) Stallcup.

The first-born of five children, Anne had many fond memories of growing up in the “Samedan Camp” near Graham, Oklahoma, including a pet skunk and a pig named “Ink.” It kept running out of the pen. 

In 1958 at 17 years of age, she met and married the tall, handsome love of her life, Sam Wylie, just off his second tour of duty in the U.S. Army. 

After several moves, Anne and Sam settled their young family in a rural community near Pruitt City, Oklahoma. She often cited her children as her greatest accomplishment — and she had every right to claim that credit.

A voracious reader, Anne was a learner and a doer whose curiosity and enthusiasm fueled family adventures that ranged from swimming in the icy cold springs of then-Platt National Park in Sulphur to learning how to forage edible plants and raising chickens. 

She built and filled a mini-library in their home and spent many summer evenings reading Hardy Boys mysteries and classic adventures like the Count of Monte Cristo to enthralled neighborhood children. 

She was booster, coach, and pit crew to marching band, football, basketball, cheerleading, theater, FAA, speech and curriculum contests, carpentry, and 4-H to name just a few of the pursuits her five children put their hands to. She became a school bus driver, covering one of the dozen or so routes crisscrossing a 25 square mile school district. With three kids in the band, she volunteered to drive 30 or so raucous teenagers all over the state, earning the moniker of “Ayatollah Anne” from the troublemakers and (out of earshot of the cool kids) “Band Mom” from everyone else.

A den leader for the Cub Scouts, Anne founded and led Blue Birds and Campfire Girls Troops in an area that lacked scouting opportunities for girls. She also served on the Fox School District school board where she advocated for better access to reproductive education in the curriculum. Due in large part to her, all five of her children attended college and have among them five degrees.

In the mid-1970s, she and Sam jointly purchased and operated an oilfield services company with one of Sam’s brothers and his wife. Anne served as an officer in the corporation as well as bookkeeper and dispatcher.

Anne loved her extended families in word and deed, organizing and attending countless family reunions for both Stallcups and Wylies. She tromped forgotten dusty graveyards in search of family history, interviewed the “old timers,” and became the keeper of our family stories.

After Sam’s death in 1997 and with all the children launched in their lives, she plowed her energy into the Ratliff City Senior Citizens where she organized, edited, and contributed many of the recipes printed in a cookbook sold to raise funds for the local all-volunteer fire department. She also founded “The Rowdy Girls” and organized outings and get togethers for these old school chums.

Her move to Norman in 2016 left a hole in the heart of her local community, not to mention their Halloween festivities. Her famous soft popcorn balls -- handed out by the hundreds -- remain legendary and deeply missed.

Anne was preceded in death by her husband, Marion William “Sam” Wylie and brother, Raymond Stallcup of Monahans, Texas. She is survived by three siblings, Chuck Stallcup of San Antonio, Texas; Kent Stallcup of Richardson, Texas; and Lynn Stallcup of South Jordan, Utah, as well as five children, Burl Wylie of Houston, Texas; Frank Wylie of Culpepper, Virginia; Lori Sexton of Norman, Oklahoma; Margie Wylie-Petruzziello of San Francisco, California; and John Wylie of Lubbock, Texas. She also leaves behind 14 grandchildren: Scott Wylie, Melissa Dupuis, Sarah Wylie, Michael Sexton, William Sexton, Elynora Wylie, Ike Wylie, Adeline Wylie-Petruzziello, Luca Wylie-Petruzziello, Benjamin Wylie, Matthew Wylie, Nathan Wylie, Starlight Galley, and Solomon Wylie, as well was one great-grandchild, Keira Sexton, and one more on the way.

The viewing will be held from 10:00 a.m. to 8:30 p.m. on Tuesday, August 3, 2021 at the John M. Ireland & Son Funeral Home & Chapel. The service will be at the same location at 10:00 a.m., Wednesday, August 4, 2021, immediately followed by the burial in the Ratliff City Cemetery in Ratliff City, Oklahoma.

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