Ramona Riggall

Services will be held graveside at Memorial Park Cemetery on Thursday October 7, 2010 at 3:00 p.m. Ramona Ann Riggall 82 full of love and grace passed to be with her Lord and awaiting loved ones September 30, 2010. Ramona was born in Richmond, Indiana in 1928. She went to Indianapolis for nurse"™s training where she met and later married her husband of 63 years Dr. Jack L. Riggall who along with her son Jim L. Riggall and brother Stanley Stackhouse survive her. Her younger son Michael D. Riggall passed 5 years before her. Ramona"™s life revolved around her home, family and good friends.  She raised her children in Wesley Methodist Church and she greatly enjoyed visiting with her friends at bible study, book circle and over coffee at the drug store. Ramona is best remembered for her great sense of humor and her joyful loving laughter that everyone who knew her and met her was made happy by. Ramona loved reading, gardening and antiquing; especially when together with Jack and their children on trips back to Indiana each summer to spend time with her parents. In later years her Mom and Dad would come to Oklahoma City, where the whole family would leave to Colorado to vacation.  She would go fishing, rock hunting and again antique browsing, but most of all she simply loved and enjoyed the beauty of nature and just taking in the mountain air and the serenity of the scenery. Ramona was a loving, caring and giving person, always thinking about the other people in her life.  If she came across a cartoon or newspaper article that she thought you might like, she would clip it and mail it to you. She was selfless in her devotion to her husband and children and always available for her friends. In her last years Ramona suffered from a debilitating series of strokes that at first left her barely able to walk or speak and then gradually made her unable to speak or walk at all.  Throughout her illness, however, she never complained one single time, instead she would always attempt to express her pleasure at anything one might try to do for her with cooing sounds that transmitted the great love that she had in her heart. Even as her body and brain withered away, the love of her heart could somehow be perceived and felt. Those of us who have known her are forever grateful for the gift of her loving presence. To send flowers or a memorial gift to the family of Ramona Riggall please visit our Sympathy Store.