Oscar Lee Moffat
Payne County Cattleman, Oscar Lee Moffat, 85, of Perkins, died Monday, Sept. 13, 2004, in Stillwater Medical Center.
Services are Thursday at 10:30 a.m. at Lost Creek United Methodist Church. Pastor Max Rudd will officiate. Interment is in Sunset Memorial Gardens, Stillwater. Strode Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements.
He was born on a farm near Piedmont on Oct. 13, 1918 to John K. Moffat and Bertha Isabel Nelson. He married Elinore Mae Siegrist in Mt. Zion Country Church, El Reno, on March 14, 1942.
Moffat attended Racine Country School and attended El Reno High School. After the death of his father, he quit school to help his mother on the farm. After his marriage, they purchased a neighbor’s LACase tractor and plow for $800 and started their dairying that lasted 45 years. They began milking 23 cows by hand in Canadian County, then bucket milkers, then pipeline milkers in Payne County. They farmed several places in Canadian County and then moved all livestock, machinery, household and family to a farm six miles south of Stillwater in September of 1960.
The family joined Lost Creek United Methodist Church and later joined Perkins First Baptist Church. They had two children: Stanley, born in El Reno and Marilyn, born in Okarche. In 1962, they moved to a farm on Highway 33, west of Perkins, after building a dairy barn. He delivered the first load of wheat in the county to Ahrberg’s Elevator in 1962.
In 1972, he received the Stillwater NewsPress Top Stockman Award, 1995 Stillwater Chamber of Commerce Farm Family of the Year Award and 2001 Payne County Soil Conservation Award.
He always raised wheat and milked cows. He took trips with his family, churches and co-ops. He ended his dairy career in 1987.
He continued to farm with Angus cattle. His grandparents came from near Moffat, Scotland. He was known by his great-grandson, Austyn, as “Grandpa Music” because he loved to listen to gospel and bluegrass music.
He belonged to Payne County Cattlemen’s Association, Oklahoma Cattlemen’s Association, Cimarron Valley Co-op and was a Life Member of the American Angus Association.
He was predeceased by his father; mother; sister, Mariel Liebscher; brother, Mervil; three nephews and one niece.
He is survived by his wife; one son, Stanley Moffat and wife, Ann, of Stillwater; one daughter, Marilyn Moffat, also of Stillwater; four grandchildren, Phillip Moffat and wife, Tammy, Heather Blankinship and husband, Paul, and Jacob Moffat, all of Stillwater and Jonathan Moffat and wife, Randi, of Roff; two great-grandchildren, Austyn Lee Moffat and Andrew Blankinship, both of Stillwater; two brothers, John J. Moffat, of Lexington and Ivan Moffat and wife, Freda, of El Reno and one sister-in-law, Fannie Moffat, of El Reno.
Memorials may be made to the American Heart Association, Oklahoma Affiliate, 3545 N.W. 58th St., #400C, OKC, OK 73112 or American Diabetes Association, 6600 S. Yale #1310, Tulsa, OK 74136.
Condolences may be e-mailed to the family at
http://www.strodefh.com/.
The service for Dad will be at Lost Creek United Methodist Church, Stillwater, OK with Rev. Max Rudd. Strode Funeral Home in Stillwater, OK. is in charge of arrangements and burial will be at Sunset Memorial Gardens in Stillwater, OK.
