Angie Offee Lee Tower

Angie Offee Lee (Shore) Tower, 93 year old Woodward resident passed away December 24, 2025 in Woodward. OK. Funeral services will be held at 2:00 pm Tuesday December 30, 2025 in the Billings Funeral Home Chapel with Reverend Jesse Johnson officiating. Burial will follow in the Elmwood Cemetery.
Angie Offee Lee (Shore) Tower was born on May 13, 1932, in Major County thirteen miles west of Fairview, OK in a tent on Highway 60 to James Bird and Jennie Francis (Wallace) Shore. They lived in a two-room log cabin with dirt floors until the fall of 1937. Angie was five and a half years old when the family moved to Louisiana and lived there for about six months. They returned to Oklahoma within 6 months and bought a farm 15.5 miles west of Fairview, OK. When she was 6 years old, the family started building a house. During this time, they slept outside most times, cooked over a bonfire, and washed clothes on a washboard. When the house was built, and the family moved in, they had the barest of basics. There was no electricity until later years. Water had to be carried from about a quarter of a mile away several times a day. A lot of produce was grown, and animals were raised on the farm, and everyone had to help. There wasn't any engine machinery - all work was done by hand or with horse drawn machinery. The family never had a car when Angie was growing up, so they would either walk or take a team of horses hitched to the wagon to town for supplies.
Angie loved church her entire life. As a child, she would walk four miles to church every Sunday. Angie accepted Jesus Christ as her savior and was baptized at the age of 10 in the North Canadian River. Angie attended school in one big room at The Union School District 230 sixteen miles west of Fairview - about a three-quarters of a mile walk to and from school each day. During her school years, she enjoyed playing softball and was often the pitcher. She graduated from the 8th grade and attended one year of high school, but then had to go to work full-time on the farm.
In 1948 when Angie was 15, her folks moved to May, OK where she would start work with her mother on a wheat farm northeast of Garden City, KS. She learned to cook by working alongside her mother preparing meals for the harvesting crew. It was during their off times that her mother taught her to sew, which became a lifelong passion. Angie moved to Woodward, OK in 1954 and in 1956 met Clyde L Tower where they worked at the Cowden Manufacturing Company. They were united in marriage on March 1, 1957, at the South Persimmon Baptist Church, south of Sharon, OK. To this union three children were born: Randy, Sandra, and Diana. They made their home in Woodward where they remained the rest of their lives. Angie started babysitting two children in 1961. Soon enough she was keeping anywhere from 12 to 15 children 5 days a week for the next 32 years. She "raised" 21 babies from 6 months to school age or longer. She also did ironing during the '60s and '70s. Angie started making quilts again in 1976 and enjoyed quilting with her mother. She's made at least one quilt for each of her children and grandchildren as well as many other members of her family. She made at least 125 full quilts and over 30 baby quilts. She also quilted many quilt tops made by her mother. All of her quilts were gifts of love, and she never charged anything for any of them. In addition to making quilts, Angie also enjoyed crocheting and cross-stitching. In her later years when sewing became harder, she used her creativity to make unique rock and button trees among many other things. She always had a love for collecting rocks and eventually found a wonderful use for them.
Angie was a member of the Cinderella Woodward Firefighters Auxiliary during Clyde's time at the Fire Dept. Angie was a member of the First Assembly of God Church and later became a member of the Bible Baptist Church. Angie and Clyde enjoyed taking trips to see their children and grandchildren. They bowled in a bowling league for 25 years. They would also take many camping trips to Colorado with family. Angie was seldom found to be idle.
She was preceded in death by her parents, James and Jennie Shore, her husband Clyde Tower, both sisters Geneva Biehn and Thelma Gray, brother Merle Shore, both daughters Diana Hughes and Sandra Martin, son-in-law, Randy Martin, sister-in-law Maxine McDonald, brothers-in-law Bill Tower, Johnny McDonald, and Don Terry.
Angie is survived by one son, Randy Tower and wife Luz of Temecula, California; on sister-in-law, Mary Evelyn Terry of Shawnee, Oklahoma; 14 grandchildren: Chris Tower, Anna Tower, Nathan Hughes and wife Jennifer, Marissa Finley and husband Austin, Maegan Hughes and husband Andrew Nelson, Jeremiah Parnell, Kaelee Parnell, Krysi Falen and husband Joe, Danielle Martin and husband Mike, Robert Martin, Jr.; 10 great-grandchildren: Zayla Tower, Natalya Tower, Lilly Hughes, Abby Hughes, Gabriel Finley, Chloe Finley, Heidi Nelson, Natasha Gale, Kylee Martin, Steele Falen; special nieces Stephanie Fullbright and Elaine Fullbright and many other relatives and friends.
In lieu of flowers memorials may be made to the Bible Baptist Church in Woodward or the Oklahoma Firefighters Association with the funeral home accepting contributions.