Margaret Ann Knox Chafin breathed her last breath on Sunday morning March 26, 2023, just 3 years and 3 days after her husband Billy Chafin passed to a much better life.

Born Margaret Ann Knox to Robert Peter (Pete) Knox and Mary Ethel Patton Knox in the early hours of June 12, 1929, just a short time before the world entered the great depression in November of that year.

She was born in a small house just across the street on the south side of West Clayton Street across from what is now Hugo Middle School, while her father (Pete) was building the home where she and her sister Patsy Ruth Knox Payne Leonard grew up and her parents lived out their lives (across from Romas Restaurant on West Jackson St.).

She met the love of her life (Billy Chafin) at the bicycle rack of the same Junior High school across from her birthplace. In her senior year she was elected Hugo High School's Football Queen.

She attended College at Oklahoma A & M for a few years (now Oklahoma State University) before she and Billy Chafin married on August 4, 1950 when he was put on active duty and sent to Camp Polk in Louisiana, before shipping off to Korea.

Her first child John, was born just a few months before Billy returned from Korea. They moved to Borger Texas, where Margaret and Billy built their first home themselves (literally), and she was up on the roof nailing on shingles just before a huge dust storm only a few months before she gave birth to her first daughter (Ann) in 1954.After deciding to further their education on the GI Bill, Margaret and Billy moved back to Stillwater to finish school and she gave birth to her second daughter (Cindy) in 1956.

After graduating in 1958, Margaret and Billy moved to Cushing, OK and Margaret gave birth to her youngest son (Scott) in 1959. Margaret was a stay-at-home mom while living in Tulsa, Salt Lake City, and the greater Saint Louis area (across the Mississippi River in east Alton, on the Illinois side).

When the family moved to Arlington Texas in 1969, she decided to teach school where she had the time of her life teaching and keeping up with two classes of Kindergarteners per day until she retired in 1994, and then spent the next 10 years volunteering to help her best friend teach Kindergarten. She loved teaching and she loved those Kindergarteners and it showed when one year she was voted Teacher of the Year for the Arlington School District.

She loved to go to church and was a lifetime member of the Church of Christ She taught Sunday school for most of her life until moving back to Hugo in 2005. After returning to Hugo, she read books to kids during the summer break library programs for kids, and was active in the conservative movement until her death.

Margaret also loved to swim and would swim weekly while in Arlington, and then in Paris any time she could after moving back to Hugo. She loved westerns, especially "Gunsmoke" and watched it weekly before it went into reruns, then watched them too, right up to the last.

Margaret is survived by her son, John Chafin and daughter Cindy Chafin of Hugo, daughter Ann and husband Brooks Stratton (West Virginia), son Scott Chafin & Pam (south of Raton, NM),  grandsons Eric & Wife and Joshua Stratton and wife (West Virginia), granddaughters Jordan Hamon & husband (Houston area) and Erica Davis & husband (Richardson TX), great-granddaughters Haley Hutchison, Sierra Bragg & husband (West Virginia), 3 great-granddaughters from Jordan Hamon (Houston area), great-grandson and great-granddaughter from Erica Davis (Richardson, TX), great-grandsons Dustin Stratton and Seth Stratton & wife (West Virginia), Austin Stratton (Deceased), one step great-grandson (Tyler Stratton, West Virginia) and step great-granddaughters Sandy & Jennifer Mills (West Virginia), two great-great-granddaughters Aspen Spearing and Chessie Bragg (West Virginia), and two step great-great-granddaughters Leanna & Zhara (West Virginia), nephews Joe Braudrick (Hugo),  Bob Payne & wife (Farmerville, TX), Nieces Patti McFadden & husband (Paris, TX), Judy Bevins & husband (both deceased), grandnephews Bradley, Tim & Brian Bevins & wife (Perry, OK), great grand-nephew David Payne (Farmerville, TX), great-grand nieces Marissa Bevins (Perry, OK), Stephanie Murtz & husband and Allison Kennedy & husband, great-great-grandnieces Grace, and Elizabeth, great-great-grand nephews Eli, Isaac, Sam and Aiden, and thousands of adopted children as she taught them over the years; and many, many good friends.

In lieu of flowers, contributions to :4th & Jackson Church of Christ" with reference to Pre-School Dept. to support projects for the kids she so dearly loved to teach. Mail to: PO Box 549, Hugo, OK 74743. Burial at Mount Olivet Cemetery in Hugo.