Graveside services for Ramona Rose Taylor Rich, 84 year-old Weatherford, Oklahoma resident, will be held Friday, May 3, 2013 at 2 p.m. at the Verden Cemetery in Verden, Oklahoma, with Pastor Ray Weathers officiating under the direction of Lockstone Funeral Home.

Ramona was born August 12, 1928 in Gracemont, Oklahoma to Grover C. and Mary (Bowling) Blackburn and passed away Monday, April 29, 2013 at Corn Heritage Village of Weatherford. Ramona was raised in the Gracemont area on the family farm and attended Britton Rural School, graduating from Binger High School in 1947. This is where she picked up her lifelong nickname, Choc. Ramona married C.W. Taylor on July 3, 1948 in Verden, Oklahoma, and the couple began farming east of Anadarko, Oklahoma. Later, the couple moved to town and made their home in Anadarko. Their union produced six sons Grover, John, Robert, Jerry, Alan Scott, and James (Jim). Ramona first worked at the Anadarko Hospital before she worked as an office nurse for Dr. A.C. Robertson in Anadarko for 23 years. In 1983, her husband, C.W., passed away after 35 years of marriage. She continued to live in Anadarko until she met Nolan Rich. On November 8, 1991, she married Nolan Rich in Port Aransas, Texas, and they made their home in Waurika, Oklahoma for 16 years until Nolan passed away in 2007. Ramona moved to Weatherford in 2007 to be near her family. Ramona enjoyed being with her family, playing with her grandkids and great-grandkids, sewing, crocheting, cooking, gardening, reading, and traveling to south Texas to fish and camp. Ramona was well-known for her ability to speak her mind in any situation, and she would drive five-miles out of her way to go to a garage sale.

Ramona is survived by her six sons, Grover Taylor and wife, Linda of Weatherford, Oklahoma, Jim Taylor and wife, Janie of Kansas City, Missouri, John Taylor and wife, Donna of Fresno, California, Robert Taylor of Carnegie, Oklahoma, Allen Zack Taylor and wife, Judy of Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, and Jerry Taylor of Henrietta, Texas; one sister, Tootie (Jillian) Blankenship of Yuba City, California; sixteen grandchildren; and twenty-four great-grandchildren; and numerous nieces and nephews. Ramona is also survived by a host of other special friends that she considered family, including Bill Reedy and wife Sandy of Carnegie, Oklahoma. She was preceded in death by her parents; both husbands; four brothers, Vernon, Clyde, G.C., and Gail; three sisters, Wilma, Wanda, and Lillian; and her special daughter-in-law, Gail Taylor.