The Norman Transcript
May 24, 2000
Services for Mabel Inez (Trogden) Kimberling, 91, of Norman will be at 10
a.m. Thursday at Primrose Chapel with the Rev. Scott Love officiating.
Burial will be at Sunset Memorial Park under the direction of Primrose
Funeral Service.
She died Tuesday May 23, 2000, in Norman.
She was Born Dec. 29, 1907, near Anadarko.
After graduating from Anadarko High School, she began teaching at
Buena Vista, a rural one-room school. While attending Central State
Teachers College in Edmond, she met her husband to be, Amos
Kimberling. He was also an educator. They were married for 30 years
before he died in 1995.
After graduation from college, the Kimberlings moved to Ryan. She was
the first in her family to achieve a college degree. She taught school at
Uinion Valley and coached the softball team to the county championship.
Other teaching assignments were at Mountain Home and Irving. After
completing a Masters degree from the University of Oklahoma, she served
as county superintendent of schools for Jefferson County. She taught at
Rancho Village Elementary School in Oklahoma City and the served for
17 years at Andrew Jackson Elementary School in Norman. Mrs.
Kimberling retired from the Norman Public Schools in 1973.
After her retirement, she had served 38 years as an educator. She was
a member of Kappa Kappa Iota and Delta Kappa Gamma, serving as
president of both organizations. She also was a member of the First
Christian Church, Cleveland County Retired Teachers, O.E.A. and the
National Association of Retired Teachers. She was a county chairperson
of the American Cancer Society, a 4-H Club Sponor and a 20-year
cancer survivor.
In addition to her husband, she was preceded in death by her parents
and eight brothers. She is survived by a sister, Myrtle Wight of Anandarko;
a son, Andy and his wife Carla, of Norman; a daughter Kay Goans and her
husband, Dennis, of Arkansas City, Kansas; grandchildren, Michael, Katie
and Kristen Kimberling of Norman; John and Charles Austin of Arkansas
City, Kan.; also a devoted friend, Martha Campos Durham of Moore,
Oklahoma.
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