Obituary for Janice Cole

Janice Eileen Cole

(May 21, 1945 – April 14, 2016)

Janice Eileen (Walcher) Cole of Norman, Oklahoma passed away peacefully early Thursday morning, April 14th, 2016, at the age of 73 years.

Janice Cole was born the 21st of May, 1942, in Blackwell, Oklahoma, to Edwin A Walcher and Eileen (Brock) Walcher. She grew up in Blackwell, Oklahoma graduating from Blackwell High School in 1960. She was a member of the marching band and played the drums. She also attended Northern Oklahoma Junior College in Tonkawa, Oklahoma. She married her high school sweetheart, Ted Cole, in Blackwell on October 20, 1962, and to this union was born three children, Lisa, Ted II and Tracey.

Janice and Ted made their home in Norman, Oklahoma beginning in 1969, where she was a talented seamstress that made gymnastics leotards and altered many a pair of Buckle jeans, along with getting all of her kids to their many athletic events.

Janice enjoyed watching her daughters play softball, basketball, and gymnastics, and her son play baseball, and basketball, always supporting them throughout their athletic endeavors. She also was a member of a philanthropic sorority for many years while her children were growing up, while participating in a bowling league, and volunteering in her children’s classrooms.

Janice loved spending time with her husband, children and grandchildren on the Gulf Shores for vacation and during the Christmas season. She also thoroughly enjoyed watching Sooner football, basketball, and gymnastics, as well as OKC Thunder Basketball.

She is survived by her daughter, Lisa and husband Steve Blyze, of Gardner Kansas; son, Theadore Morris Cole II and wife Stephanie of Houston Texas; daughter, Tracey and husband Tony Purler of Holt, Missouri; grandchildren, Theadore Morris Cole III, Katelyn and Connor Cole of Houston, Texas, and Lilia and Ronin Purler of Holt, Missouri; brother, Ernie Walcher of Woodward, Oklahoma, and two sisters Barbara (Walcher) Fulton of Bartlesville, Oklahoma, and Jo Ann (Walcher) Bilyeu of Moore, Oklahoma.

She is preceded in death by her parents, Edwin Walcher and Eileen (Brock) Walcher, and her husband Theadore Cole. Services are scheduled for 1:00 p.m., Friday, April 22nd, 2016 in the Roberts and Son Funeral Home Chapel in Blackwell with Presbyterian Rev. Robert Montgomery officiating. Burial will follow in the Blackwell Cemetery.

Casketbearers will be Theadore Cole III, Connor Cole, Gerald Cole, Gregory Cole, Conrad Walcher, and Rocky Walcher.

A memorial has been established in her honor with the Blackwell Public School Foundation Class of 1960 c/o Roberts and Son Funeral Home, 120 W. Padon, Blackwell, Oklahoma 74631.