Tommie Dupy, 92, precious mother and grandmother, passed away in Ponca City, Sunday, March 7, 2010.

Born August 9, 1917, at St. Joe, Texas, she was the middle of 7 children born to Bob and Virgie Aldriedge.   After graduating  from St. Joe High School in 1933, she worked for a time as a dental assistant and then attended Oklahoma A & M at Stillwater for a year and a half, majoring in home economics.  Keeping house, cooking, sewing, knitting, crocheting, and crafts of all sorts would be a lifelong enjoyment.

On January 9, 1939, she married Wilson Dupy, and they had two children, Donna and Fred.   Wilson’s job as a land appraiser took them to many locales in New Mexico, Texas, and finally Oklahoma.  In the early years, Tommie was active in her children’s activities, attending their events, serving as a boy scout leader and camp fire leader.  Throughout her life she excelled as a homemaker and shared her excellent cooking with not only her family but with the home bound, the ill, the grieving, or new and old friends.  She loved entertaining and opened her home freely for church social meetings and, later, her Delphi Study Club meetings. 

In 1967, when her husband took early retirement, she and Wilson moved to Tonkawa.   They joined the First Baptist Church where Tommie taught 9-year-old girls for many years in Sunday School and was an active member of the Baptist Women’s Organization.   She also took up quilting and was a member of the Overtones Quilting group.  

Her self-appointed ministry was visiting the home bound, young and old alike, who didn’t have much company.  She had learned from her own parents how much visits, greeting cards, and calls meant to the lonely and hurting.  Her visits were regular and she usually brought a magazine and a sample of a recent recipe she had tried. Tommie was still actively involved in her ministry at the time of her death. 

Tommie is survived by her two children, Donna Swaffar of Tulsa and Fred Dupy and wife, Leslie, of Springfield, Missouri; her three grandchildren, Josh and Clayton Dupy, and Stephen Swaffar; and two great-grandchildren, Tyler and Nathan Swaffar; a sister-in-law, Irene Aldriedge, three nieces and six nephews.  She is survived also by a special friend, care taker and companion the past 7 years, Carolyn Lane of Blackwell, her church family, and many friends in the Tonkawa community.

She was preceded in death by her parents, her husband of sixty four years in 2005, and six brothers and sisters.

The family will receive friends Thursday, March 11, 2010 from 4:00 pm til 6:00 pm at the Tonkawa Funeral Home.  Funeral Service will be Friday, March 12, 2010 at 1:30 p.m. at the Tonkawa First Baptist Church with Dr. Richard Thomasson officiating. Interment will follow in the Billings Cemetery. The arrangements are under the direction of the Tonkawa Funeral Home, Tonkawa, Oklahoma.

Memorials may be made to the First Baptist Church to a fund of choice in care of the Tonkawa Funeral Home, 400 E. Grand Ave. Tonkawa, Oklahoma 74653.

Condolences may be sent to the family using our online guest book at www.tonkawafh.com