Funeral services for Maurine Billingsley are scheduled for Saturday, June 22nd at 10:00 a.m. at the Craddock Memorial Chapel. Interment will follow at Rosehill Cemetery. Visitation will be Friday evening from 6:30 to 7:30 p.m. at Craddock Funeral Home.

Daughter of the late Fred Sam and Daniel Preston (Christopher) Tindall, Maurine was born June 28, 1932, in Nacogdoches, Texas. She was the sole survivor of her immediate family. Preceded in death by her 5 siblings Steve Tindall, Charlene King, Hulon Tindall, Fred (Buck) Tindall and John Tindall, all of Texas. Beginning life as a family working the farm during the Great Depression, they all learned the lifelong values of hard work and perseverance.

Martha "Maurine" Billingsley passed from this earth on June 19th, 2024, in Ardmore, Oklahoma. After graduating high school Maurine attended Stephen F. Austin University in Nacogdoches, Texas. While attending university she worked as "soda jerk" and was proud to be a beauty queen representing Swift Brothers. Maurine married Travis Billingsley January 17th, 1953, in Pasadena, Tx. while attending the University of Houston after which they settled in Nacogdoches, Texas. They acquired their first auto dealership, Tipton Billingsley Ford, Lufkin Texas in 1963 at the age of 34. With more opportunity they moved to Ardmore Oklahoma in 1975 to begin Billingsley Ford Lincoln, Ardmore Oklahoma. They were members of the First United Methodist Church Lufkin and Ardmore. Maurine continued to devote her time between family and work for the new company for basically, the next 40 years. Travis and Maurine leave behind a family business legacy that over 61 years has grown and prospered to 5 locations with over 200 business associates.

Travis proceeded Maurine in death on February 21, 2009. She was also preceded in death by her great grandson Torino Billingsley.  She is survived by their 3 children, Karen Kay Maresh and her husband Terry, Des Moines Iowa, Michael Travis Billingsley and his wife Anne, Ardmore Oklahoma and Craig Billingsley and his wife Janie of Lawton, Oklahoma.

She is also survived by 7 loving grandchildren, Travis Wright, Tracie Wright, Sabra Reynolds, Grannon Billingsley, Colin Bullard, Chris Bullard and Anna Temple. And 11 great grandchildren, Tindall, Tyler, Lillie, Mililani, Barrett, Gracie, James, Asher, Blake, Jack and Annie.

Michael Billingsley, Craig Billingsley, Grannon Billingsley, Dr. James Pat Telford, Terry Maresh, and Travis Wright will serve as bearers.

She will be missed.

Memorials may be made to: OU Stephenson Cancer Center

https://www.ouhealth.com/philanthropy-at-ou-health/our-philanthropic-priorities/give-to-cancer-care-research/,

Mercy Health Foundation (Ardmore)

https://give.mercyhealthfoundation.net/give/406988/#!/donation/checkout?utm_source=mercy&utm_content=footer

&c_src=mercy&c_src2=footer or the memorial of your choice.