Hazel Irene Cagle

Hazel Irene Cagle Obituary On Tuesday, March 30, 2021, Hazel Irene Cagle, loving wife, mother, grandmother and great-grandmother went to be with the Lord at age 94. Hazel passed away peacefully at Victoria Gardens in Frisco, Texas. Hazel was born on July 11, 1926 in McLain, Oklahoma to Edgar Neal Purdom and Margaret Marie Hunnicutt Purdom. The first in her family to attend a college, Hazel received a degree in Home Economics from Northeastern State Teachers College in 1949. Throughout her 44-year career in education, Hazel taught hundreds of students in Keefeton and Warner, Oklahoma. She began her teaching career at age 19 in a two-room schoolhouse in Keefeton, Oklahoma where she taught 1st through 4th grades and eventually served as the school’s principal. In later years, she primarily taught 3rd grade in Warner, Oklahoma. Outside of teaching, Hazel was a member of the First Baptist Church of Muskogee for over 50 years where she played the piano and baked cookies each week for her Sunday School class. Hazel served as the President of the Salvation Army of Muskogee, volunteered with the Five Civilized Tribes Museum and worked the local election polls. Hazel was also a member of Keenagers, American Business Women and Oklahoma Retired Teachers Association. She was an avid gardener, newspaper reader, lover of Rocky Road ice cream, tea and coffee, and the owner of three cocker spaniels named Cakey. More than anything Hazel loved her family. She nurtured all her children and grandchildren with undying love and compassion. Hazel never stopped teaching her own children all of the important life lessons, including how to be good Christians and care for others around them. Hazel was preceded in death by her husband, James Oscar Cagle; her mother and father, Edgar and Margaret Marie Purdom; her brother, Conrad Purdom; her sister, Barbara Purdom Dunaway; and her best friends and fellow “Golden Girls”, Marnell Norman Davis and Bea Cagle. Hazel is survived by her daughter and son-in-law, Marta and Kit Thomson; her son and daughter-in-law, Mike and Lou Cagle; granddaughter, Kali Thomson; grandsons, Michael Cagle, James Cagle, William Cagle and Kody Thomson; and great-granddaughter, Carter Cagle. A funeral service will be at 2PM, Wednesday, April 7, 2021 at Cornerstone Funeral Home Chapel in Muskogee, Oklahoma. A burial will be held immediately following the services at Greenhill Cemetery in Muskogee, Oklahoma.

Hazel Irene Cagle

July 11, 1926 - March 30, 2021