Obituary for Florence “Ann” Mauk

Florence “Ann” Mauk passed peacefully Sunday morning, Nov. 23, 2014, at the Fairfax Hospital. She had been a resident of the Fairfax Manor Nursing Home since February this year. She was 78. The baby daughter of John O. Tapp and Elpha Akin Torkelson Tapp was born Jan. 26, 1936, in Ponca City. Her siblings included, John A. “Jr” Tapp, deceased, Nellie Irene Tapp Shanks Marrs, surviving; and Orval Clifton “Tuffy” Tapp, deceased. They were all raised in Osage county in the Braden District and Mt. Grove, Mo.

She attended Burbank first grade where she was the only girl in the class. Then attended Garfield Elementary in Ponca City. In junior high she met the love of her life, Jimmy “Jim” Lee Mauk, Sr., now deceased. They began their 60 year adventure together. While in high school they married on Aug. 30 1952, at the First Christian Church Chapel. After which, Jim joined the Marine Corps and Ann joined him in Norfolk, Va., where the oldest of their five children were born. Marsha Ann, Debbie Lee, Jimmy Lee, Linda Kaye and Diana Margaret Mauk were their greatest accomplishments and their pride.

Ann was a very friendly woman and graced you with a smile at all times. She was a stay at home mother until the children were older, then she went to work seasonally at Tanco and later drove the school bus for Ponca City Schools, Braden District, and was the cook when the Child Development Center first opened, then worked at Gibson’s Discount Store. In 1976 they owned and operated “The Branding Iron Cafe” and Jim ran Jim’s Pool Hall. She went to work for Conoco Food Services where she retired in 1991.

Ann was always involved with her family always standing beside her man “Big Jim” and helped the working daughters with her granddaughters; Jordan Jamison and Crissi Loch, who graced her with her first great-grandchild this year, Sequin Lee Graves. Her life was her family and living on the farm in the Osage, SE of the City.

Jimmys son, Zachary Mauk, lived and helped with grandma and grandpa. After Jim’s death on Oct. 7, 2010, Ann went to live with her oldest daughter, Marsha and family, children: Taylor, Stephanie, Isabella, Jacob DeFoor; Bryan DeFoor, friend; Carolyn and Susan Dewey, extended family.

Funeral will be Monday, Dec. 1, at First Christian Church, 2 p.m., with Larry Metzger officiating. A meal will be served prior to the service at the First Christian Church Fellowship Hall. Burial will follow at Oddfellows Cemetery.

Viewing will be at Trout Funeral home Saturday and Sunday, Nov. 29 and 30. Family will be at the funeral home for visitation from 1-5 p.m. Sunday.

Family will be at home at 2516 Woodthrush Road, Ponca City.

Source: Trout Funeral Home