Margaret Leona Standing

Margaret Leona Standing obituary

Margaret Leona Standing

Margaret Standing Obituary

Obituary published on Legacy.com by Laurel Oaks Funeral Home & Memorial Park on Oct. 4, 2025.

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Margaret Leona Standing, 81, of Mesquite, Texas, passed away on September 27, 2025.

Margaret was born on April 19, 1944, to Geneva Beck and Marion England. She met the love of her life Alfred Standing and they married on April 4, 1964, in Lawrence, Kansas. She was a proud member of the Cherokee Nation and loved bowling, traveling, and spoiling her grandkids. Margaret was loved by many and will forever be missed.

She was preceded in death by her loving husband Alfred Standing; parents Marion and Geneva Beck England; daughter Sharlene Trammell; sister Patricia Partain; and brothers Leo and Bob England.

Margaret is survived by her son Philip Standing and wife Melanie; sisters Jody Yocum and Donna Phillips; granddaughters Brooke Standing, and Tabitha Hughes and husband Robert; grandson Jared Trammell and wife Ashley; great grandsons Logan and Colton Hughes, and Oliver Trammell; and great granddaughter Isabella Trammell.

Family interment at Butler Cemetery in Grove, Oklahoma to be announced.

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