A Memorial Service for Virginia Maxine Starkey Wickham, age 81, of Oklahoma City, formerly of Enid, will be at 2:00 P.M. Saturday, March 1, 2008, at First United Methodist Church, with Rev. Susan Southall officiating.  Burial will follow in Memorial Park Cemetery, with arrangements by Anderson-Burris Funeral Home.  Visitation with the family will be from 1:00 to 2:00 P.M. at the church prior to the service.

            She was born to Vernon Crotty and Henrietta (Mark) Kilpatrick on April 30, 1926, in Augusta, Kansas, and died Wednesday February 27, 2008, in Oklahoma City.

            She graduated from Ellinwood, Kansas High School, and then attended Salt City Business College in Hutchinson, Kansas.    Virginia worked for Union Equity until her retirement in 1988.  On August 25, 1989, she married Stanley Wickham in Enid.  She was a member of ABWA, Desk & Derrick, National Secretarial Association, and the Christian Church of the Covenant prior to moving to Bella Vista, Arkansas in 1990.  She moved back to Enid in 2003, and was a member of First United Methodist Church.  In 2004, she moved to Oklahoma City to be near her daughter.

            She is survived by her daughter, Judy Seymour and husband Terry of Oklahoma City; son Michael Cutting and wife Carla of Portland, Maine; stepdaughter Cheryl Boyer and husband Fred of Enid; sister Pat Rasmussen and husband Ray of Lincoln, Kansas; sister-in-law Matty Kilpatrick of Walnut Creek, California; four grandchildren; two nieces; and five nephews.

            Virginia was preceded in death by her parents, husband Jesse Starkey in 1974, husband Stanley Wickham, Sr. in 2003; and brother Donald Kilpatrick.