The Norman Transcript
June 2, 2005
Dorothy S. Poynor, 90, of Norman died Monday, May 30, in Norman. Services will be 10 a.m. Monday at Havenbrook Funeral Home Chapel in Norman with Ken Huddleston officiating. Burial will be 3:30 p.m. Monday at Granite City Cemetery with the Rev. Arol Stevenson officiating. Havenbrook Funeral Home is handling arrangements.
Mrs. Poynor was born Oct. 10, 1914, in Granite, to Baxter Smith and Lennis (Murray) Smith. She graduated from high school at age 16. She taught at Granite school for one year before enrolling in Oklahoma College for Women in Chickasha. She transferred to Oklahoma A&M (now Oklahoma State) in Stillwater and graduated in 1937 with a B.S. degree in home economics. She married fellow student Kenneth J. Poynor in 1937. They were married 55 years.
Mrs. Poynor taught in Oklahoma schools for 32 years. She started her career as a high school English teacher in Nowata. She taught in Lexington and other Oklahoma schools before teaching in Norman Public Schools. She retired in 1977 after teaching first grade for several years at Jackson Elementary School in Norman. One of her greatest pleasures was the continued contact with many of her students over the years. Mrs. Poynor and her husband were cattle ranchers east of Lexington in the late 1940s. Mrs. Poynor supported her husband in his real estate and insurance business Ken Poynor Agency and his service in the Oklahoma Legislature.
Mrs. Poynor was a talented artist, mostly in oils, and an expert seamstress. Family members say she created exquisite fashions for herself and her home and glorious doll clothes for her two nieces. She shared her inherited love of pets with her husband and had a particular fondness for toy poodles and stray cats. She was an avid gardener whose yard and garden room were floral retreats of great beauty, family members say. She collected recipes and was an excellent cook. Mrs. Poynor and her husband provided a home for Mrs. Poynor's mother and later for Mrs. Poynor's aunt Winnie Tharp.
Mrs. Poynor was preceded in death by her daughter Glenda Sue and husband Kenneth J. Poynor.
Mrs. Poynor is survived by her brother Forrest Smith and wife Nancy of Norman; nieces M.L. Smith of Bowie, Md., and Linda Cornwell of Trappe, Md.; three grandnephews of Virginia; and one great-grandniece of Virginia.
Online condolences may be posted at www.havenbrookfuneralhome.com/Obituaries.html.
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