Leona Moppin

Leona Mae Johnson Moppin was born Dec. 24, 1939 in Wewoka Oklahoma and died Dec. 23, 2022 in Oklahoma City Oklahoma. She was a member of the Free will Baptist church at Wolf and attended there all her life and loved cats. Leona went to grade school at Wolf, Eufaula boarding school and was a Bowlegs high school graduate of 1960. She also was a graduate of Haskell Indian Jr. College in Lawrence Kansas where she studied teaching and was Assistant teacher helping the young Indian children learn English, she also worked for ONHL Home Care Services as a care giver for several years. Having no children of her own, Leona loved her nieces and nephews and her. She loved to spend time with them at family gatherings and dinners. She spent her past time going to Indian church singings and services when she could and loved to quilt with her niece or the ladies at OAP. Leona had a big heart and just loved helping others.

Preceded her in death were her father Willeya Johnson and mother Minnie Stewart Seeley. Her first husband John “Johnny” Wolf and husband Tom Moppin. Her sisters Edna Miller and Julia Johnson, brothers Londo Johnson, Leeman Johnson

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and Freeman Johnson, nephews Charles D. Miller, Billy (Yogi) Miller, Timothy DeWitt and Joseph Bardeleben and a niece Theresa Miller, many family members and friends. She is survived by her nieces, nephews, cousins and many friends and her cats Lottie, Colie and Sylvester.

Thank you to medical doctors and staff at SSMH Seminole and SSMH St. Anthony OKC.

Pallbearers are Joe Bardeleben, Damon Cravens, Jayce Cravens, Stevie Miller, Tony Miller and Mike Miller. Honorary pallbearers, Louis Carpitche, Jimmy Deathridge, Russell Gardner, Lewis Miller, Darrell Phillips, Pastors Robert Davis and Frank Moppin. Funeral is at Swearingen funeral home Friday at 10 A.M. graveside service at Little Cemetery.