Shirley Ann Boulware, nee Richardson, age 87, of Midwest City, OK, passed on to be with Our Lord and Savior on July 22, 2025. She was born to Oscar Lee and Faye Lillian Richardson, nee Coody, on September 3, 1937, in Maysville, OK.
She was a wonderful housewife and mother to a very large family and loved every minute of it.
She will be missed by her children, Earl and his wife, Patty; Roger and his wife, Norma; Vicky Wray Keisling and her husband, Kent Keisling; daughter-in-law, Sherry and her husband, Larry Louthan; her only surviving sibling, Linda Cook; as well as her many grandchildren, great-grandchildren, and great-great-grandchildren.
She is preceded in death by her husband of 67 years, Tommy Ray in 2022; her son, Stanley Ray in 1987; her son-in-law, James Michael Wray in 2018; as well as her parents and three siblings.
A funeral service for Shirley will be held Saturday, July 26, 2025 at 10:00 AM at Wilmont Place Baptist Church, 6440 S Santa Fe Ave, Oklahoma City, OK 73139. Following the funeral service will be a committal at Arlington Memory Gardens, 3400 N Midwest Blvd, Oklahoma City, OK 73141.
Serving as pallbearers are Kevin Boulware, Russell Boulware, Steven Boulware, Roger Alan Boulware, Michael Wray Boulware, Roger Boulware, Jeremy Conner and Matthew Toney.