Lavada Romine

Lavada Marie (Tillery) Shamblin Romine was born on July 13, 1953 in Briartown, Oklahoma to T.D. and Addie Mae (Goff) Tillery. She passed from this life November 14, 2021 in Muskogee, Oklahoma at the age of 68.

Lavada met and married the father of her children in 1968. That marriage dissolved in 2001. Out of that marriage, four children were born.

Lavada worked at Valmac Food Processing and also as a provider caring for the elderly to provide for her family.

Lavada grew up poor, but she knew how to make the best of any situation.  Growing up in a family of eight children, there was much love and laughter, along with hard work.  She loved cooking, fishing and singing gospel music. On any given day you would find her on a pond bank fishing or sitting on the front porch of one of her many elderly friends enjoying the fellowship.  She took great pride in her grandchildren and you could see her big, beautiful brown eyes light up and her smile double in size when they came to visit.

Lavada leaves behind three children, Leslie Seaman and husband, Bruce, of Muskogee, Oklahoma; Anthony Shamblin and wife, Emily, of Porum, Oklahoma; and Cheryl Pierce and husband, Ronnie, of McAlester, Oklahoma; three sisters, Becky Phillips and husband, Mike, of Muskogee, Oklahoma; Pam Holt and husband, Ken, of Vian, Oklahoma; and Mary Mendenhall of Porum, Oklahoma; one brother, Joe Tillery of Muskogee, Oklahoma; her grandchildren, Cadesha Walden, Michael Jones, Cody Pierce, Sierra Pierce, Ryan Shamblin, Ricky Shamblin, Kylie Shamblin, and Jennie Pierce; and six great grandchildren.

Lavada was preceded in death by her parents, T.D. and Addie Mae Tillery; two brothers, Robert Tillery and Tommy Tillery; one sister, Agnes Quinton; and one son, Ricky Wayne Shamblin.

Viewing will be held at Mallory-Martin Funeral Home in Stigler on Tuesday, November 16 from 1:00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m., on Wednesday, November 17 from 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m., and at Mallory Viewing Chapel in Porum on Thursday, November 18 from 9:00 a.m. to 7:00 p.m. with family visitation from 5:00 p.m. to 7:00 p.m.; and on Friday, November 19 from 9:00 a.m. to 7:00 p.m.

Funeral services will be held at 10:00 a.m. on Saturday, November 20, 2021 at Porum Assembly of God Church with Rev. Wayne Lindsey and Rev. Kenneth Clay officiating. Interment will follow at Coleman Cemetery under the direction of Mallory-Martin Funeral Home and Crematory of Stigler.

Pallbearers are her grandsons and nephews – Michael Jones, Cody Pierce, Ryan Shamblin, Lloyd Tillery, Josh Tillery, Devin Tillery.