A service for Stella “Irene” Richmond, age 86, of Enid, will be at 2:00 P.M. Wednesday, December 10, 2008, at Richmond Chapel located North of Wappapello, Missouri.  Burial will follow in Richmann Cemetery.  Viewing and visitation will be only on Monday, with the family present from 7:00 to 8:30 P.M. Monday evening at Anderson-Burris Funeral Home.

     She was born to Charles Calvin and Daisy Marie (Hess) Archer on September 27, 1922, in Lilbourn, Missouri, and died Friday, December 5, 2008, at Integris Bass Medical Center in Enid, OK.

     Irene grew up in Painton and Wayne County, Missouri and attended Zelma High School.  During World War II, she worked at a Small Arms Defense Factory in St. Louis riveting bomb fuses.  Her name is listed on the Veterans Honor Wall in Washington DC for her work during the war.  After the war, she worked at a curtain factory in St. Louis.  On March 23, 1950, she married Melford “Doyle” Richmond in Pocahontas, Arkansas, and they made their home in Enid, Oklahoma.  Irene was a homemaker and mother, and then worked at the Enid State School for eighteen years, retiring in 1987.  She was a member of West Side Baptist Church.

     She is survived by her husband Doyle of the home; two daughters, Janet Richmond of Midwest City, and Diane Jack and her husband Michael of Austin, TX; one grandchild Darcy Jack of Austin, TX; one brother David Archer of Columbia, IL; and two sisters Genevieve Hogue of Dupo, IL and Rosemary Weston of Waterloo, IL.

     Irene was preceded in death by an infant brother.

    Memorials may be made through the funeral home to West Side Baptist Church.