Cheryl Ann McLaughlin-Stansbury
1958 - 2020
Funeral services for Cheryl Ann
McLaughlin-Stansberry, of Lawton will be held at 10:00 am on Tuesday,
November 17, 2020, at the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day
Saints.
Interment will follow at Faxon Cemetery
under the direction of Lawton Ritter Gray Funeral Home.
A memorial service will be held at the
Holy Cross Lutheran Church on Wednesday, November 18, at 4:00 pm,
with Reverend Ahren Rieter officiating.
Cheryl, age 62, passed away 9:15 am on
November 11, 2020, at her daughter's residence in Lawton surrounded
by family.
She was born on April 26, 1958, in
Wichita, Kansas. She was adopted by Burton and Geraldine Sanders and
lived in Newton, Kansas. She graduated from Newton High School in
1976, before pursuing an Associates of Arts from Hutchinson Community
College and a Bachelors of Science from Kansas State University in
Manhattan, Kansas. She married John McLaughlin in 1980. To this
union, Daniel, Megan, Matthew, John, and Sarah were born. She later
remarried to Albert Stansberry in 2000. To this union, Erike was
born. Cheryl also graduated with a Masters of Education in 2001 from
Cameron University in Lawton, OK.
She began working at Lawton Public
Schools in 1998 as a string orchestra director and teacher. She also
worked as an organist for the Old Post Chapel on Fort Sill and the
Lutheran church of Lawton. She also played as a string quartet
cellist, university chamber orchestra bassist, church music minister,
church keyboards, classical pianist, classical organist, professional
accompanist, and low strings coach and co-conductor of the Lawton
Youth Symphony. She loved science, theology, foreign language study,
and gardening on the side.
She was a daughter of a Navy World War
II veteran and a proud mother to several military veterans from the
Army, Navy, and Air Force.
Cheryl was survived by her husband,
Albert Stansberry, her biological mother, Faye Boraks, six children,
Daniel, Megan, Matthew, John, Sarah, and Erike, and eleven
grandchildren, Ashley, Allison, Nataliea, Logan, Abigale, Elijah,
Ephraim, Beaux, Ian, Owen, and Grace (unborn).
She was preceded in death by her
parents, Burt and Gerry Sanders, and brother Craig Sanders.
Memorial contributions may be made to
St. Jude Children's Research Hospital.
1958 - 2020 (62 years)