Mary Geren

March 26, 1925 - February 15, 2020

Mary Geren ​Funeral services for Mary Geren have been scheduled for 2:00 PM, Wednesday, February 19, 2020 at the Hayhurst Funeral Home Chapel. Interment will follow at Floral Haven Memorial Gardens under the direction of Hayhurst Funeral Home in Broken Arrow. ​Mary E. Geren was born Thursday, March 26, 1925 in Coweta, the daughter of Rulison and Jane (Wacoche) Haynie. She passed this life on Saturday, February 15, 2020 at University Village Health Care in Tulsa, Oklahoma. She was 94 years of age. ​The former Miss Mary E. Haynie was a 1943 graduate of Coweta, Oklahoma high school. She married Marvin Geren on October 1, 1949 in Van Buren, Arkansas. Marvin preceded her in death on April 8, 2015. Mary was a homemaker who enjoyed Gardening, Cooking, Sewing and Reading. Her passion was the art of painting and spending time with her family. The family requests memorials to St. Jude Children’s Hospital, P.O. Box 1000, Memphis, TN 38148 (https://www.stjude.org/donate/). ​Mom was full blood Muscogee Creek Indian. She loved to cook and bake and share her dishes with everyone, if she had nothing to do she’d bake a cake or pie to share. She loved to garden growing plants and many different types of flowers and would always share her knowledge to help other plant lovers. Her love of painting and her painting friends was one of her great joys, she loved her time in painting class and her time with her friends in painting class. Mom took great pride in her Native American heritage sharing our heritage with her children. She loved to read, to go shopping with her sister, but most of all she loved her family. ​She is survived by, Sons,​​​Pudge Burnett and wife Rhonda LaBonte, Bellingham, WA ​​​Johnny Geren, Tulsa, OK ​​​Jeff Geren, Tulsa, OK Grandchildren,​Jennifer, Andrew, Joshua, Jordan, Courtenay, Zachary and​​​​Nicholas Great Grandchildren, Michael, Isabella, Brayden, Dylan and Elise Sister,​​​Cheneya Holiday, Broken Arrow, OK ​Mary was preceded in death by, her parents, Rulison and Jane, Husband, Marvin, Sons, Truman and Jerry Sr., Grandson, Little Jerry, Brothers, Bill and Charles.