Volume 9 , Issue 31

Obit - ARMOR, Keith Ann

"Keith Ann Armor, 76, died on July 27, 2007, at Mercy Hospital in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma after a long illness. She was born to Jesse and Daphne Plank in Enid, Oklahoma, on June 9, 1931. She was raised in Fairview, Oklahoma, and graduated from Fairview High School in 1949.

She was united in marriage to George William 'Bill' Armor on August 16, 1954. The couple had been married for more than fifty-two years at the time of her death. Keith Ann taught English Literature and United States Government, among other subjects, at Laverne High School from 1959 to 1993.

Governor Nigh appointed her to several state educational boards, including the curriculum and block grant boards. She also served on the OEA professional standards board. In 1991 she received the Oklahoma Academic Bowl Coach of the Year Award. In her later years, she remarked that she had the opportunity to teach three generations of Laverne students.
,br> She was so well respected by her fellow teachers and administrators that when she announced her retirement in 1991, the school board asked her to teach part-time for another two years, which she accepted.

She earned her Bachelors of Arts in English Literature from the University of Oklahoma in Norman in 1954, where she was a member of Delta Gamma. While at OU, she played piccolo for the Pride of Oklahoma Marching Band, and played the flute in the OU Symphony Orchestra. She was one of the 'Top Ten Senior Women' at OU.

She received her Masters of Arts in Education from Northwestern Oklahoma State University at Alva in 1965.

Keith Ann began her teaching career in Rio Linda, California, near Sacramento, in 1958 where she taught special education and English, after Bill received orders to begin his active JAG officer service at McClellan Air Force Base.

From 1956 to 1958 the couple lived in Europe where Bill was first stationed at Furstenfeldbruck Air Force Base in Germany and later at Ellinikon Air Force Base in Athens, Greece.

She showed great courage and perseverance in a country that had just ended a bloody civil war, and she had many intriguing Cold War stories from her life in Greece.

Because the Air Force had no hospital in Athens, she gave birth to their first child, Camille, at the NATO base in Izmir, Turkey.

She was active in the Delphian Club (where she served as the state literacy chairman), the United Methodist Women, Delta Kappa Gamma, and she served on the board of directors for the Woodward Plains Indian and Pioneer Museum. She was a faithful communicant of the United Methodist Church.

She is survived by her husband Bill and four children: Camille Dowers and husband John of Blanchard; Clark Armor and wife Gina of Norman; Vance Armor of Oklahoma City; and Jess F. Armor and wife Becky of Edmond; six grandchildren-Graham, Michael, Madeline, Matthew, Zachary, and Andrew; three step-grandchildren-Emalie, Evan, and Erron; and one step great-grandchild-Hailey. She is also survived by her sister, Jean Clendening of Richardson, Texas, and her brother, Charles R. Plank of New York City." -- Published in The Oklahoman on 7/30/2007.
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