Ouida Stayton Mandaville
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Ouida Stayton Mandaville passed away May 31, 2021. Visitation will be Monday, June7, 2021 from 6-8 pm at Memorial Park Funeral Home. Funeral service will be Tuesday, June 8, 2021 at 10 am at Amarillo Seventh-day Adventist Church . Ouida Stayton was born July 7, 1935 to Leonard and Goldie Stayton in Flagg, TX. She was the eighth of ten children. Her father was a farmer and the family moved from Flagg to Dimmitt, then to Hereford where Ouida graduated from high school in 1953. While working in Amarillo she met Johnny Wray who she married in 1958 and later that year her first child Thomas Wray was born. Early in 1960 Johnny was killed in an auto accident in Tennessee and later that year her second child Johnene was born. Ouida and her kids lived in Hereford with her mother and older sister, while she worked for the ASCS office in Hereford.
In 1968 Ouida and the kids moved to Amarillo where she began working for The Texico Conference Office. In 1978 Johnene had a baby girl, Kandy who Ouida started raising, also in 1978 John Mandaville moved to Amarillo and worked at the Conference office, he and Ouida got married in 1980 and now Kandy had a grandpa and grandma! In 1984 Ouida and her little family moved to Burleson, TX so Kandy could attend an Adventist elementary school, high school and finally the Adventist University in Keene, TX. Ouida worked at several odd jobs, but finally worked as a secretary at two different Adventist Churches. In 2000 Kandy was killed in an automobile accident near Ft. Worth. In 2004 Ouida and John moved back to the Amarillo area where Ouida officially retired and John worked as a copy repair man until he retired in 2017. In the last four years of her life Ouida faced several health challenges and finally passed away on May 31, 2021.
She is preceded in death by her parents; her daughter Johnene; granddaughter Kandy; five sisters and one brother.
She is survived by her husband John; son Thomas Wray and wife Sara; two Sisters Betty Jean and husband Commie and Wanda Lou; Brother James and wife Lynda. Along with five grandchildren; four great grandchildren and three great- great grandchildren.