HAZEL PEARL BISHOP (GRABEEL)

 

August 19, 2020

Hazel Pearl (Grabeel) Bishop

Hazel Pearl Bishop, 86 passed away peacefully on August 10, 2020, at Northhaven Place, Oklahoma City. She was born December 2, 1933, in Liberal, Kansas, the daughter of Irvin and Velma Grabeel. She married Charles (Ish) Vern Bishop on October 16, 1954.

A few years after she and Ish were married they moved with Panhandle Eastern Pipeline to Alva, where they raised their family. After Ish retired from Panhandle Eastern they moved to Elk City for a couple of years, then on to Oklahoma City. Hazel worked many years in Alva as a bookkeeper and school secretary. Many of the students and teachers Hazel worked with as a school secretary continue to share the respect and love they had for Mrs. Bishop. Hazel also enjoyed working for Mahaffey & Gore Law Firm in Oklahoma City as a secretary. Her greatest joy was being a mother and grandmother. She was a member of The Church of the Servant in Oklahoma City and was active in the ladies' Sunday school class as well as enjoying fellowship with the ladies' weekly Bible study. Besides her parents, Hazel was preceded in death by her husband, Charles; three sisters and their husbands; and son-in-law Byron Koehn.

Hazel is survived by five children, Chuck Bishop (Oklahoma City), Karen Koehn (Alva), Kathy Lohmann (Oklahoma City), Bill Bishop (Broken Arrow) and Tim Bishop and wife Diana Bishop (Noble); four grandsons, Tom Bishop and Jennifer Bishop (Oklahoma City), MM2 (SS) Jim Bishop (Groton, Connecticut), and Seth and Tyler Bishop (Noble).

Donations may be made in memory of Hazel Bishop to the music departments at First United Methodist Church in

 

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