Jewel Eileen Conner Obituary - Visitation & Funeral Information

Memorial service for Jewel Conner will be held at 2 p.m. Saturday August 6, 2022, at the Alva High School Auditorium. The Rev. Judye Pistole will officiate. A private burial will be held in Enid, Oklahoma. Friday August 5, 2022 there will be a public viewing. Arrangements are made by Wharton Funeral Chapel, Alva. Jewel Eileen Conner, daughter of Caryl Voight and Mildred (MacKay) Pickett. Jewel Conner was born at Wesley Hospital in Wichita, Kansas and raised in on a dairy farm outside of Rose Hill, Kansas. She passed away in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, on August 1, 2022, at the age of 67. Jewel attended the 12 grades at Rose Hill Schools and graduated with the class of 1973. She received her B. A. Degree in Music Education from Northwestern Oklahoma State University and graduated in the class of 1977. On June 11, 1977, Jewel married Michael Lyn Conner in Rose Hill, Kansas. To their marriage three sons, Byron Dwain, Enid, Curtis Edward, Helena, and Steven Charles, Noble were born. Following their marriage, they moved to Hope, Kansas where Mike taught Band while She was busy attending to Byron. Mike’s next teaching assignment was Wakita, Oklahoma. When they moved to Cherokee, Jewel began her teaching career as the Vocal Music Teacher and Assistant Band Director. They continued to work together in Kingfisher and Newkirk before coming to Alva in 1999 where she returned to Cherokee as the Music Director before joining Mike as the Assistant Band Director in Alva, Oklahoma. She finished her teaching career at Laverne, Oklahoma. In her retirement she accompanied the Alva Middle School, High School Choirs, and Show Choir, Electric Gold. If Jewel was not found at a keyboard, she was spending time with her three sons, reading a romance novel on her patio, Christmas crafting, or kicking up water at the edge of a beach. Jewel was preceded in death by her husband, Mike Conner, her parents, Caryl Voight and Mildred (MacKay) Pickett, and siblings, Verla Irene and Harold Perry, Nelda Mae and Floyd Coleman, Leatha and Robert, “Bob” Gammon, and Laris Melvin Pickett, and Earl Herron. Jewel is survived by her three sons, Byron Dwain Conner, Curtis Edward and Michele Lyn Conner, and Steven Charles Conner and Francesca Ninon Murch, her siblings, Mary Lou (Laris) Pickett, Lester Caryl Pickett, Ruth Darlene Herron, Warren Earl and Jill Pickett, Walter Justin and Fatima Pickett, Clark Wayne and Kathy Pickett, and Velma Pickett, several nieces and nephews, and other relatives and friends. In lieu of flowers, th contributions can be made to Alva High School and Jr High School Choirs.

Jewel Eileen Conner

July 21, 1955 - August 1, 2022