Funeral Services for Terrie Jo (Chance) Byfield, 76, of Fairview, will be Thursday, December 14, 2023 at 2:00 p.m. in the Fairview First Baptist Church. Reverend Derek Cox will officiate.  Burial will follow in the Cheyenne Valley Cemetery.   Arrangements by Fairview Funeral Home, Inc.

Terrie Jo Byfield was born in Alva on December 30, 1946 to Joseph Stong Chance and Nellie Madeline (Lord) Chance.  She graduation from Alva High School in 1964 and went to college at Northwestern Oklahoma State University where she met her future husband, Lewis Byfield.  She was a housewife and a farmer where they raised all sorts of animals including chickens, ducks, peacocks, goats, cows and even Rhea and Ostrich.

She was a 50-year member of the Cheyenne Valley Home Community Education Organization where she did lots of volunteer work including chairing a committee that hosted the Gloss Mountain Bicentennial show and sale of the Arts in 1976.  She was awarded district homemaker of the year as well as the champion skillet thrower at the Major County Free Fair.

She was on the board that was instrumental in the forming of the Major County Historical Society and hosting the first of many Threshing Bee.

She was always doing crafts.  She crocheted, knitted and sewed.  She made candy and had every shape of mold imaginable.  She taught herself calligraphy and in later years she loved adult coloring books.

For many years she attended the First Baptist Church of Cheyenne Valley until they closed and then she was baptized and became a member of the First Baptist Church in Fairview.

She is survived by her husband of 58 years, Lewis Byfield, brother Virgil Chance and wife Gladys of Wisconsin, daughter Susan Root and husband Eddy of Enid, son Mark and wife Tricia of Fairview.  Grandchildren, Megan Pickens and husband Jeff of OKC, Gregory Pekrul and wife Jenni of Enid, Brandi Price and husband Tim of OKC, Jessica Pitts and husband Joshua of Enid, Bryan Root and wife Caitlyn of Enid, Jacqulyn Byfield of Fairview and Rhylee Joe Starks of OKC plus 13 great-grandchildren.

She was preceded in death by her parents and brother Donald Chance.